The Evidential Argument from Evil
by Howard-Snyder, DanielFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-04-01
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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 Atheism | p. 1 |
| Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists | p. 12 |
| Some Major Strands of Theodicy | p. 30 |
| Aquinas on the Sufferings of Job | p. 49 |
| Epistemic Probability and Evil | p. 69 |
| The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition | p. 97 |
| Rowe's Noseeum Arguments from Evil | p. 126 |
| The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence | p. 151 |
| The Skeptical Theist | p. 175 |
| Defenseless | p. 193 |
| Some Difficulties in Theistic Treatments of Evil | p. 206 |
| Reflections on the Chapters by Draper, Russell, and Gale | p. 219 |
| On Being Evidentially Challenged | p. 244 |
| The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look | p. 262 |
| The Argument from Inscrutable Evil | p. 286 |
| Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Arguments from Evil | p. 311 |
| Bibliography | p. 333 |
| Contributors | p. 351 |
| Index | p. 353 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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