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Does Skeptical Theism Lead to Moral Skepticism?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006
beings suffering for no apparent good reason. Perhaps the most common criticism of the evidential argument comes from the camp of skeptical theism, whose lot includes William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, and Stephen Wykstra. According to skeptical theism the limits of human knowledge concerning the realm of goods, evils, and the connections between values,
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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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CORNEA and Skeptical Theism

Philosophia Christi
I begin with a brief examination of early, subjunctive, formulations of conditions of reasonable epistemic access. I then turn my attention to Bayesian formulations. I suggest that, because of the many difficulties that attend Bayesian theorizing, it is worth considering an alternative framework for discussion of the relevant considerations.
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Skeptical Theism: A Response to Bergmann

Noûs, 2001
Bergmann suggests that STI is reasonable-or at least not unreasonableowing to our "awareness of our cognitive limitations and the vastness and complexity of reality." And he notes that I seem to have some sympathy with STI. He then considers my "new evidential argument from evil" and argues that it depends on "a rejection of this skeptical thesis and ...
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Skeptical theism and value judgments

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2012
One of the most prominent objections to skeptical theism in recent literature is that the skeptical theist is forced to deny our competency in making judgments about the all-things-considered value of any natural event. Some skeptical theists accept that their view has this implication, but argue that it is not problematic. I think that there is reason
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Paying the cost of skeptical theism

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2010
In this paper I show that two arguments for the inconsistency of skeptical theism fail. After setting up the debate in “Introduction” section, I show in “The initial debate” section why Mylan Engel’s argument (Engel 2004) against skeptical theism does not succeed.
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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 is incompatible with theodicy

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2014
Inductive arguments from evil claim that evil presents evidence against the existence of God. Skeptical theists hold that some such arguments from evil evince undue confidence in our familiarity with the sphere of possible goods and the entailments that obtain between that sphere and God’s permission of evil(s).
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New Directions for Skeptical Theism

Philosophia Christi
Skeptical theism challenges the evidential problem of evil by arguing that human cognitive limitations prevent us from judging whether any instance of evil is truly pointless. This symposium gathers leading philosophers who explore new directions for skeptical theism.
John M. DePoe, Perry Hendricks
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Deontological Skeptical Theism Proved

Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion, 2023
Perry Hendricks, Hendricks Perry
exaly