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Skeptical Theism

2021
Abstract This chapter critically examines skeptical theism, roughly the point of view that God exists but that God’s reasons for permitting evils are beyond our abilities to discern. Matters addressed include the epistemic import of appearances of pointlessness, the skeptical theses and analogies for the human condition with respect to ...
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Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism

Philosophia Christi, 2022
One objection to skeptical theism is that it implies radical moral skepticism. Humans cannot make any moral judgments on this view because of their ignorance of the inaccessible divine knowledge that is called upon to explain the existence of apparently gratuitous evil.
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Skeptical Theism

Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form:  If God exists, the world would not be like
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Meet the New Skeptical Theism, Same as the Old Skeptical Theism

2014
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Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Commands

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2013
Over the last twenty-five years skeptical theism has become one of the leading contemporary responses to the atheological argument from evil. However, more recently, some critics of skeptical theism have argued that the skeptical theists are in fact unwittingly committed to a malignant form of moral skepticism.
Scott Aikin, Brian Ribeiro
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The Nature of Skeptical Theism

Philosophia Christi, 2019
Skeptical theism is a popular response to arguments from evil. Recently, Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Yoaav Isaacs have argued that the theses that ground skeptical theism are either false or limited in scope. In this article, I show that their objections rest on dubious assumptions about the nature of skeptical theism.
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All too skeptical theism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010
Skeptical theism contends that, due to our cognitive limitations, we cannot expect to be able to determine whether there are reasons which justify God’s permission of apparently unjustified evils. Because this is so, the existence of these evils does not constituted evidence against God’s existence.
William Hasker
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A Refutation of Skeptical Theism

Sophia, 2012
Skeptical theists argue that no seemingly unjustified evil (SUE) could ever lower the probability of God's existence at all. Why? Because God might have justifying reasons for allowing such evils (JuffREs) that are undetectable. However, skeptical theists are unclear regarding whether or not God's existence is relevant to the existence of JuffREs, and ...
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Skeptical Theism to the Rescue?

2019
In this chapter, I consider whether skeptical theism can successfully defend traditional theism against a logical argument from evil grounded in the fundamental requirements of our morality that are captured by the exceptionless minimal components of the Pauline Principle.
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Skeptical Theism

Abstract The main goal of this chapter is to show that the sort of skeptical theism defended by philosophers like Michael Bergmann and Daniel Howard-Snyder cannot be used to refute the two arguments from evil defended in this book. After explaining why skeptical theism of the sort in question seriously challenges arguments from the ...
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