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The Problem of Evil & Sceptical Theism
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2017AbstractThe problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of a perfect God with the existence of horrible things in the world. Many take this problem as a convincing reason to be an atheist. But others think that the problem can be solved. One prominent solution is called ‘sceptical theism’.
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Sceptical theism and the evil-god challenge
Religious Studies, 2018AbstractThis article is a response to Stephen Law's article ‘The evil-god challenge’. In his article, Law argues that if belief in evil-god is unreasonable, then belief in good-god is unreasonable; that the antecedent is true; and hence so is the consequent.
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Egoism or the problem of evil: a dilemma for sceptical theism
Religious Studies, 2012AbstractSceptical theists undermine the argument from evil by claiming that our ability to distinguish between justified and unjustified evil is weak enough that we must take seriously the possibility that all evil is justified. However, I argue that this claim leads to a dilemma: either our judgements regarding unjustified evil are reliable enough ...
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Sceptical Theism, the Butterfly Effect and Bracketing the Unknown
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2017AbstractSceptical theism claims that we have vast ignorance about the realm of value and the connections, causal and modal, between goods and bads. This ignorance makes it reasonable for a theist to say that God has reasons beyond our ken for allowing the horrendous evils we observe. But if so, then does this not lead to moral paralysis when we need to
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The wages of theism: Scepticism and depravity
2010Historically, philosophers and theologians have argued for what remains a popular position— the view that atheism threatens morality and even knowledge. Contrary to historical custom and popular sentiment, I argue that morality and knowledge are actually threatened by theism.
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‘God told me to do it’: sceptical theism and perceiving God
Religious Studies, 2011AbstractIn this article I highlight a tension between Alston's core thesis in his seminal book Perceiving God – that beliefs about God formed on the basis of mystical perception are prima facie justified – and a currently popular method for disarming a certain form of the argument from evil, a method which involves adopting a view known as sceptical ...
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Sceptical theism and a lying God: Wielenberg's argument defended and developed
Religious Studies, 2014AbstractSceptical theists attempt to block the evidential argument from evil by arguing that a key premise of that argument – that gratuitous evil exists – cannot reasonably be maintained. They argue that, for all we know, our knowledge of reasons God may have to permit such evil is radically incomplete.
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Sceptical Theism and the Evidential Argument from Evil
2016Version of Record: Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81, 4, 496 ...
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Sceptical theism and the problem of epistemic evil: Why sceptical theism is philosophically costly
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Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2020Luis Oliveira
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