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Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Deception [PDF]
Forum Philosophicum, 2010 Skeptical theism—a strategy for dealing with so-called “evidential arguments from evil”—is often held to lead to moral skepticism. In this paper I look at some of the responses open to the skeptical theist to the contention that her position leads to moral skepticism, and argue that they are ultimately unsuccessful, since they leave the skeptical ...
Joshua Seigal
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SKEPTICAL THEISM
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2021 The purpose of the present essay is to present a version of the evidential argument from evil and to propose a ‘skeptical theistic’ response from a phenomenological point of view.
Steven NEMES
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Skeptical Theism, Free Will Skepticism and Atheism: Pondering the Scope of Moral Paralysis
Cuestiones Teológicas, 2019 In this paper, I aim to show that Skeptical Theism (ST) implies the rejection of Free Will Skepticism (FWS). This is so because ST holds the so-called evidential argument from evil against theism. This argument presupposes free will (as a hidden premise),
Rafael Miranda-Rojas
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Religious Belief, Evidentialism, and Skeptical Theism
Cuestiones Teológicas, 2016 The purpose of the article is to develop a line of argument in favor of a religious belief in the existence of God, in such a way that it is possible to hold that: i) it is a rational belief and ii) it is non-dependent on contingent evidence.
Rafael Felipe Miranda Rojas
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Faith and Philosophy, 2019 Skeptical theists have paid insufficient attention to non-evidential components of epistemic rationality. I address this lacuna by constructing an alternative perspectivalist understanding of epistemic rationality and defeat that, when applied to skeptical theism, yields a more demanding standard for reasonably affirming the crucial premise of the ...
Jonathan C. Rutledge +1 more
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Skeptical Theism Unscathed: Why Skeptical Objections to Skeptical Theism Fail
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2019 AbstractArguments from evil purport to show that some fact about evil makes it (at least) probable that God does not exist. Skeptical theism is held to undermine many versions of the argument from evil: it is thought to undermine a crucial inference that such arguments often rely on.
Perry Hendricks
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Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Commands
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2012 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 F. Aikin, Brian Ribeiro
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Foundations of Skeptical Theism [PDF]
Faith and Philosophy, 2012 Stephen J. Wykstra +2 more
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