How To Be a Skeptical Theist and a Commonsense Epistemologist

Faith and Philosophy 35 (3):345-355 (2018)
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Trent Dougherty has argued that commonsense epistemology and skeptical theism are incompatible. In this paper, I explicate Dougherty’s argument, and show that (at least) one popular form of skeptical theism is compatible with commonsense epistemology.

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10.5840/faithphil2018614107

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Skeptical Theism.Timothy Perrine - 2023 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Sceptical theism and the evil-god challenge.Perry Hendricks - 2018 - Religious Studies 54 (4):549-561.

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