Skeptical Theism Proved

Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6 (2):264-274 (2020)
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Abstract

Skeptical 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. In this article, I aim to remedy this situation: I construct an explicit, rigorous argument for the truth of skeptical theism.

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Perry Hendricks
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The Fall and Hypertime.Hud Hudson - 2014 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Evil and Evidence.Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne & Yoaav Isaacs - 2016 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 7:1-31.

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