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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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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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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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Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020 Skeptical theism is a popular response to arguments from evil. Many hold that it undermines a key inference often used by such arguments. However, the case for skeptical theism is often kept at an intuitive level: no one has offered an explicit argument ...
Hendricks, Perry
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, 2017 Skeptical theism is a family of responses to the evidential problem of evil. What unifies this family is two general claims. First, that even if God were to exist, we shouldn’t expect to see God’s reasons for permitting the suffering we observe.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen
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Skeptical Theism, Pro-Theism, and Anti-Theism [PDF]
, 2020 In this chapter, I consider personal and impersonal anti-theism and personal and impersonal pro-theism. I show that skeptical theism undermines arguments for personal anti-theism and impersonal anti-theism. Next, I show that (at least some) arguments for
Hendricks, Perry
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The Limits of Skeptical Theism
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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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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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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