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Human Sovereignty and the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]
Religions, 2022 In this paper, I provide a defence of theism against James Sterba’s version of the logical problem of evil, at least where the focus is on moral evil (I do not have much to say about natural evil in this paper).
Daniel Molto
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The Problem of Evil Remains Logically Binding [PDF]
Religions, 2021 Most contemporary discussions of the problem of evil assume that “logical” formulations of the problem are untenable, and that we should operate with “evidential” formulations instead. I argue that this consensus is founded on a mistake and that there is
Toby Betenson
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The Thomistic Dissolution of the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]
Religions, 2021 In his book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’, James Sterba argues that the existence of much of the evil to be found in the world is logically incompatible with the existence of God.
Edward Feser
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Isaac Qatraya and the Logical Problem of Evil
Religions, 2022 Sterba has recently produced a searching and significant version of the argument from evil. Here, I set out aspects of the view of God, suffering, and the afterlife articulated by Isaac Qatraya (also known as Isaac of Nineveh and Isaac the Syrian), and ...
James Henry Collin
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Causal Connections, Logical Connections, and Skeptical Theism: There Is No Logical Problem of Evil
Religions, 2022 In this paper, I consider Sterba’s recent criticism of skeptical theism in context of his argument from evil. I show that Sterba’s criticism of skeptical theism shares an undesirable trait with all past criticisms of skeptical theism: it fails.
Perry Hendricks
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Divine Morality or Divine Love? On Sterba’s New Logical Problem of Evil
Religions, 2023 In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence.
Jonathan C. Rutledge
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An Analysis of Avicenna's View on the Attributes of God: Investigating the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 The problem of evil has been a challenging issue throughout the history of religious and philosophical thought. In the past, thinkers would rely on evil to undermine divine omnipotence, wisdom, and justice.
Saide Sadat Nabavi
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Against the New Logical Argument from Evil
Religions, 2023 Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...
Daniel Rubio
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Religions, 2021 Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) draws attention to the importance of ethical assumptions in ‘logical’ arguments from evil (LAfEs) to the effect that the existence of (certain types) of evil is incompatible with the existence of a God ...
John Bishop
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A Moral Criticism of Contemporary Islamic Philosophy's Responses (According to Tabatabai and Motahhari’s Viewpoints) to the Problem of Evil [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023 There are three accounts of the problem of evil: (1) Logical problem of evil (The logical incompatibility between the existence of God and His attributes and the existence of evil); (2) The evidential problem of evil (Evil as evidence against the ...
Zahra Yahyapour +2 more
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