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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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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, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Commands
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2013Over 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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Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2020
AbstractSkeptical 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 for the truth of skeptical theism.
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AbstractSkeptical 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 for the truth of skeptical theism.
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A Refutation of Skeptical Theism
Sophia, 2012Skeptical 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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The Nature of Skeptical Theism
Philosophia Christi, 2019Skeptical 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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Skeptical Theism, God, and Evidence
2022Skeptical 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. Broadly speaking, skeptical theists are theists who are skeptical about the ability of humans to discern, by certain methods, the probability of God permitting ...
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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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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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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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