The Blackwell companion to the problem of evil

John Wiley & Sons

2013

9780470671849

Notes on contributors ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Part I Problems of Evil 1 1 A brief history of problems of evil 3 Michael W. Hickson 2 The logical problem of evil: mackie and plantinga 19 Daniel Howard-Snyder 3 A new logical problem of evil 34 J.L. Schellenberg 4 Rowe s evidential arguments from evil 49 Graham Oppy 5 Explanation and the problem of evil 67 Paul Draper and Trent Dougherty 6 A carnapian argument from evil 83 Richard Otte 7 The experience of evil and support for atheism 98 Jerome Gellman 8 The problem of animal pain and suffering 113 Robert Francescotti 9 Hell and the problem of evil 128 Andrei A. Buckareff and Allen Plug 10 The problem of apparently morally abhorrent divine commands 144 Wesley Morriston 11 God because of evil: An ad hominem argument from evil for belief in God 160 Marilyn McCord Adams Part II Theodicies 175 12 A brief history of theodicy 177 Rene van Woudenberg 13 Counterpart and appreciation theodicies 192 Justin P. McBrayer 14 Free will and soul-making theodicies 205 Daniel Speak 15 The connection-building theodicy 222 Robin Collins 16 Best possible world theodicy 236 Hud Hudson 17 Providence and theodicy 251 Thomas P. Flint 18 A christian theodicy 266 Laura W. Ekstrom 19 Toward an Indian theodicy 281 Purushottama Bilimoria 20 Earth s epistemic fruits for harmony with God: an Islamic theodicy 296 Mohammad Ali Mobini 21 On constructing a Jewish theodicy 309 David Shatz 22 Feminism and the problem of evil 326 Beverley Clack 23 Process theism and theodicies for problems of evil 340 James A. Keller 24 Theodicy in a vale of tears 349 Evan Fales 25 Antitheodicy 363 N.N. Trakakis Part III Skeptical Responses 377 26 A brief history of skeptical responses to evil 379 T.M. Rudavsky 27 Peter van Inwagen s defense 396 Meghan Sullivan 28 A defense without free will 411 Derk Pereboom 29 Skeptical theism, CORNEA, and common sense epistemology 426 Thomas D. Senor 30 The moral skepticism objection to skeptical theism 444 Stephen Maitzen 31 The global skepticism objection to skeptical theism 458 Ian Wilks 32 Theistic objections to skeptical theism 468 David O Connor 33 Skeptical theism and the too much skepticism objection 482 Michael C. Rea Index 507

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