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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.
Hendricks, Perry
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Empirically Skeptical Theism

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. Empirically Skeptical Theism, as I call it, is the hypothesis that God shields our lives from irredeemable evils surreptitiously (just as van Inwagen proposes that God shields our ...
DeRose, Todd
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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 skeptical theism, yields a more demanding standard for reasonably affirming the crucial premise of the ...
Rutledge, Jonathan Curtis
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Skeptical Theism and Enlightenment Thinkers in Tracing Epistemological Humility

Jurnal Multidisiplin Ibrahimy
This study examines the origins and development of skeptical theism a philosophical position that reconciles belief in God with the recognition of human cognitive limitations in understanding divine providence, particularly regarding the problem of evil.
Michael Yurievich Kuznetsov
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Skeptical Theism, Pro-theism, and Anti-theism [PDF]

, 2021
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 and the Threshold Problem [PDF]

Forum Philosophicum, 2013
In this paper I articulate and defend a new anti-theodicy challenge to Skeptical Theism. More specifically, I defend the Threshold Problem according to which there is a threshold to the kinds of evils that are in principle justifiable for God to permit, and certain instances of evil are beyond that threshold.
Cohen, Yishai, PhD
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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 ...
Seigal, Joshua
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THE DE JURE OBJECTION AGAINST BELIEF IN MIRACLES

Manuscrito, 2021
Alvin Plantinga (1993a, 1993b, 2000) argues that de jure objections to theism depend on de facto objections: in order to say that belief in God is not warranted, one should first assume that this belief is false. Assuming Plantinga’s epistemology and his
GESIEL DA SILVA
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Skeptical Theism and Moral Skepticism [PDF]

Ars Disputandi, 2004
Skeptical theists purport to undermine evidential arguments from evil by appealing to the fact that our knowledge of goods, evils, and their interconnections is significantly limited. Michael J. Almeida and Graham Oppy have recently argued that skeptical theism is unacceptable because it results in a form of moral skepticism which rejects inferences ...
Trakakis, Nick, Nagasawa, Yujin
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Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I respond to James Sterba’s recent book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’ I show that Sterba concludes that God is not logically possible by ignoring three important issues: (a) the different functions of leeway indeterminism (and the ...
Jacqueline Mariña
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