(For more detailed discussions of arguments for and against postmenopausal motherhood, see, for example, Fisher and Sommerville /2003 1998; Parks 1999; Pennings 2001; Goold 2005; Peterson 2005; Cutas 2007; Smajdor 2011).
An infrequently voiced, but nonetheless real, statistical concern arises because χ is somewhat sensitive to small N. The discussion of Argument 4 noted that χ behaves appropriately for large N, but there remains the concern that χ tends to slightly over-reject true models when N is small (e.g. [ 23]: Table three).
Seifert added: "Our greatest concern is that we have yet to see a thorough and inclusive discussion of arguments for and against a move.
(See the discussion of argument-based approaches, in Section 3.4, below).
See Donnelly (2011a) for a critical discussion of arguments that, in her terms, 'use mereological principles to support metaphysics'.
This article concerns primarily the concept of God in process theism, although we shall conclude with a brief discussion of arguments for the existence of God in process thought and a note on the historical influences on process theism.
Given that the preceding observations are rather obvious ones, one might have expected that discussions of the argument from evil would have centered mainly upon concrete formulations of the argument.
See Skyrms (1996) and Vanderschraaf (1996) for more extended discussions of this argument.
For valuable, philosophically oriented, discussions of the argument of GA II, see Bolton 1987, Charles 1988, Code 1986, and Gotthelf 1987b, Henry 2003, 2006a, 2008.
Probability theory now commonly appears in discussions of other arguments for and against theism, especially the argument from design.
