The God Beyond Belief In Defence of William Rowe'S Evidential Argument from Evil /

• Main Author: Trakakis, Nick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion ; 27
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Modern philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.; Modern Philosophy.; Religious Studies, general.

Why would a loving God who is all-powerful and all-knowing create a world like ours which is marred by all manner of evil, suffering and injustice? This question has come to be known as ‘the problem of evil’ and has troubled both ordinary folk and specialist philosophers and theologians for centurie...

Table of Contents:

• Background to the Problem of Evil
• Rowe's Evidential Arguments from Evil
• What No Eye Has Seen: The Epistemic Foundations of Wykstra's CORNEA Critique
• CORNEA Applied to Rowe's Evidential Argument
• Further Objections to Rowe's Noseeum Assumption
• In Support of the Inference from Inscrutable to Pointless Evil
• The Problem of Divine Hiddenness
• Meta-Theodicy: Adequacy Conditions for Theodicy
• Theodicy Proper, or Casting Light on the Ways of God: Horrendous Moral Evil
• Theodicies for Natural Evil
• The Compatibility of Gratuitous Evil with Theism
• Conclusion: Is Rowe's Evidential Argument Successful?.