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The Problem of Evil Remains Logically Binding
Religions, 2021 Most contemporary discussions of the problem of evil assume that “logical” formulations of the problem are untenable, and that we should operate with “evidential” formulations instead. I argue that this consensus is founded on a mistake and that there is
Toby Betenson
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TheoLogica, 2021 While the evidential problem of evil has been enormously influential within the contemporary philosophical literature—William Rowe’s 1979 formulation in “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism” being the most seminal—no academic research has ...
Ian Church +2 more
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The Status of Leibniz's Theodicy in Kant's Pre-Critical Thought [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023 Immanuel Kant has addressed the problem of evil in many of his works. The neglected part of Kant’s thought -especially among Muslim scholars- is his philosophical objections and defenses regarding the problem of evil in pre-critical and early critical ...
Zahra Farzanegan, Farah Ramin
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The Secular Problem of Evil: An Essay in Analytic Existentialism [PDF]
, 2021 The existence of evil is often held to pose philosophical problems only for theists. I argue that the existence of evil gives rise to a philosophical problem which confronts theist and atheist alike. The problem is constituted by the following claims: (1)
Prescott, Paul
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Criticism of the nihilistic solution of the nature of evil Based on the wisdom of the Supreme with emphasis on Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's point of view [PDF]
حکمت اسراThe problem of evil is one of the most important philosophical-theological challenges in all religious religions such as Islam and Christianity. Many thinkers have analyzed and investigated it with different approaches.
Mohamad Javad Hasanzadeh Mashkani
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Religions, 2018 Prominent approaches to the problems of evil assume that even if the Anselmian God exists, some worlds are better than others, all else being equal. But the assumptions that the Anselmian God exists and that some worlds are better than others cannot be ...
Marshall Naylor
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Hyper-Past Evils: A Reply to Bogdan V. Faul
Open Theology, 2020 A reply to Bogdan V. Faul’s “Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt.” In this reply we clarify why it is that we regard a scene-changing theory of time to be an improvement over presentism from a theological point of view. We
Goldschmidt Tyron, Lebens Samuel
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A Better Disjunctivist Response to the 'New Evil Genius' Challenge [PDF]
, 2017 This paper aims for a more robust epistemological disjunctivism (ED) by offering on its behalf a new and better response to the ‘new evil genius’ problem. The first section articulates the ‘new evil genius challenge’ (NEG challenge) to ED, specifying its
Shaw, Kegan J.
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Leibniz and Swinburne's views on the problem of evil [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2015 The problem of evil is the most serious problem in religious thinking, and now is the most important atheistic reason against the existence of God. According to this argument, existent evils in the world are not compatible with an omnipotent, omniscient ...
Abdollah Nasri +1 more
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Moral Error Theory and the Problem of Evil [PDF]
, 2009 Moral error theory claims that no moral sentence is (nonvacuously) true. Atheism claims that the existence of evil in the world is incompatible with, or makes improbable, the existence of God. Is moral error theory compatible with atheism?
Daly, Chris
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