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9780253210289

The Evidential Argument from Evil

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253210289

  • ISBN10:

    0253210283

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-04-01
  • Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

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Summary

Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, given their biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other than theism.Contributors include William P. Alston, Paul Draper, Richard M. Gale, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Bruce Russell, Eleonore Stump, Richard G. Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, and Stephen John Wykstra.

Author Biography

DANIEL HOWARD-SNYDER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Evidential Argument from Evil
The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheismp. 1
Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theistsp. 12
Some Major Strands of Theodicyp. 30
Aquinas on the Sufferings of Jobp. 49
Epistemic Probability and Evilp. 69
The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Conditionp. 97
Rowe's Noseeum Arguments from Evilp. 126
The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silencep. 151
The Skeptical Theistp. 175
Defenselessp. 193
Some Difficulties in Theistic Treatments of Evilp. 206
Reflections on the Chapters by Draper, Russell, and Galep. 219
On Being Evidentially Challengedp. 244
The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Lookp. 262
The Argument from Inscrutable Evilp. 286
Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Arguments from Evilp. 311
Bibliographyp. 333
Contributorsp. 351
Indexp. 353
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