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The Skepticism of Skeptical Theism [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019 Skeptical theism is a type of reply to arguments from evil against God’s existence. The skeptical theist declines to accept a premiss of some such argument, professing ignorance, for example, about whether God is justified in permitting certain evils or ...
Edward Wierenga
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A DEFENCE OF SKEPTICAL THEISM [PDF]
Manuscrito, 2021 According to The Evidentialist problem of Evil, the existence of disproportionate, prima facie gratuitous evil and suffering in the world is enough evidence against the existence of the Omnipotent, Perfectly Loving, Omniscient God of Classical Theism.
NICOLA SALVATORE
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Causal Connections, Logical Connections, and Skeptical Theism: There Is No Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]
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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The Limits of Skeptical Theism [PDF]
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophySkeptical theists contend that human cognitive limitations undermine atheistic arguments from evil. One recent challenge to skeptical theism has been posed by Climenhaga (2025), who argues that if we should—as some skeptical theists argue—be agnostic ...
Slater Simek
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An Evaluation of Skeptical Theism
Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013 One of the most influential and frequently addressed responses to the evidential argument from Evil and divine hiddenness is advocated by so called skeptical theists, who claim that we are cognitively ill-equipped to know Gods reasons for permitting ...
Francis Jonsson
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The Problem of Evil, Skeptical Theism and Moral Epistemology [PDF]
Religions, 2021 This paper argues that skeptical theism isn’t susceptible to criticisms of the view presented in James Sterba’s new book on the logical problem of evil.
Scott M. Coley
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Hume's Objection from Evil to the Design Argument and Skeptical Theism [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020 . In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume seeks to refute the teleological argument on the basis of the existence of evil in the world. This paper addresses this main objection of Hume’s.
Amir Saemi +1 more
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Skeptical Theism and Moral Skepticism [PDF]
Ars Disputandi, 2004 Skeptical theists purport to undermine evidential arguments from evil by appealing to the fact that our knowledge of goods, evils, and their interconnections is significantly limited. Michael J. Almeida and Graham Oppy have recently argued that skeptical theism is unacceptable because it results in a form of moral skepticism which rejects inferences ...
Nick Trakakis, Yujin Nagasawa
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Skeptical Theism and Cognitive limitations of Humanity [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020 “Parent analogy” is one of the important arguments that was suggested by Stephen Wykstra, one of the prominent philosopher of Skeptical Theism. By formulating this argument, Wykstra shows that like infant who doesn’t understand reasons of her parent who ...
Fatemeا Saeedi +2 more
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Faith and Philosophy, 2020 Inspired by Peter van Inwagen’s “simulacra model” of the resurrection, I investigate whether it could be reasonable to adopt an analogous approach to the problem of evil. Empirically Skeptical Theism, as I call it, is the hypothesis that God shields our lives from irredeemable evils surreptitiously (just as van Inwagen proposes that God shields our ...
Todd DeRose
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