Revisiting the Problem of Evil

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Part 1: The Deductive Argument

    The Problem:

    Free-Will Defense

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    Contra

     Transworld Depravity

        Contra

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                                    Other Resources For the Deductive Argument


Plantinga, Alvin. God Freedom and Evil. Eerdmans, 1974

________. The Nature of Necessity. Clarendon Press, 1978

________ & Michael Tooley. Knowledge of God. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.


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Part 2: The Inductive Argument

    Michael Tooley’s Treatment

Michael Tooley’s evidential argument against theism in written form can be found in the book, God and Knowledge by he and Alvin Plantinga pages 97-150.  An on-line summary of the key issues can be found on this blog (first entry) by Tom Poston.  

         “On Tooley On Inductive Logic and the Evidential Argument from Evil” by Ted Poston in The Prosblogion, 5/24/2010.

See also this debate entitled “Is God Dead?”, where Tooley makes his inductive case in the first part of the debate: 

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYGap7J7yvM

        Contra Tooley

    On-Line Reviews of God and Knowledge 

    Journal Reviews of God and Knowledge:

Scott A. Davison. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.  Volume 66, Number 2, p. 105-107, DOI: 10.1007/s11153-009-9210-4

Steve Schheley. Philosophia Christi. Volume 12, Number 1, p. 233-227, 2010.

   Other On-Line Resources for the Inductive (Evidential) Argument From Evil

    Other Resources for the Inductive Argument

Alston, William P. “The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition” in Philosophical Perspectives 5:29-67.

Howard-Snyder (ed.). The Inductive Argument from Evil. Indiana University Press. 1996.

Otte, Richard. “A Carnapian Argument from Evil (Welcome Back, Skeptical Theism)” in  McBrayer & Daniel Howard-Snyder (eds.). The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil. John Wiley and Sons, 2013, pages 83-97.

Plantinga, Alvin & Michael Tooley. Knowledge of God. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.            

Reichenbach, Bruce. Evil and a Good God. Fordham University Press, 1982.

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