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The Limits of Skeptical Theism [PDF]

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Skeptical 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 [PDF]

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, 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, Perry Hendricks
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Skeptical Theism [PDF]

, 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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Empirically Skeptical Theism [PDF]

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.
DeRose, Todd
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Skeptical Theism Unscathed: Why Skeptical Objections to Skeptical Theism Fail

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2019
Arguments 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 ...
Hendricks, Perry
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Skeptical Theism Proved [PDF]

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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Perspectival Skeptical Theism [PDF]

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 ...
Rutledge, Jonathan Curtis, Rutledge, Jonathan Curtis; id_orcid   +1 more
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Skeptical Theism, God, and Evidence

, 2022
Skeptical theism is an important position (or set of positions) that—if true—has significant implications in the philosophy of religion regarding the epistemic status of theism and atheism.
Hendricks, Perry
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Agnosticism, Skeptical Theism, and Moral Obligation [PDF]

, 2014
Skeptical theism combines theism with skepticism about our capacity to discern God’s morally sufficient reasons for permitting evil. Proponents have claimed that skeptical theism defeats the evidential argument from evil.
Maitzen, Stephen
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