Michael Tooley, in Plantinga & Tooley, "Knowledge of God" (Blackwell 2008) argues that, in the absence of strong evidence in favour of the existence of God, the logical probability of God's existence is extremely low. His argument focusses on rightmaking and wrongmaking properties of divine actions, and employs Carnap's inductive logic to reach his conclusion. I argue that Tooley's argument's conceptual foundations are problematic, and that his application of Carnap's inductive logic is flawed. I then provide an alternative analysis of the relevant inductive issues
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Why does God permit suffering in the world? If God is wholly good, omnipotent, and omniscient, why w...
It is sometimes thought that the Problem of Evil entails the inexistence of God. However, this is no...
Given plausible assumptions about the nature of evidence and undercutting defeat, many believe that ...
Michael Tooley, in Plantinga & Tooley, "Knowledge of God" (Blackwell 2008) argues that, in the absen...
In his article, ‘What's Wrong with Tooley's Argument from Evil?’, Calum Miller's goal was to show th...
The problem of evil is the most prominent argument against the existence of God. Skeptical theists c...
The author presents reasons for thinking that the evil we observe in the world is not even prima fac...
Does evil constitute any evidence against the existence of God? Stephen Wykstra argues that it does ...
Here I consider the two most venerated arguments about the existence of God: the Ontological Argumen...
J. L. Schellenberg, in “A New Logical Problem of Evil,” published in The Blackwell Companion to the ...
According to a simple Bayesian argument from evil, the evil we observe is less likely given theism t...
Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument fr...
The problem of evil is the most difficult problem confronting theistic belief. If God exists, why is...
The problem of evil is broadly considered to be one of the greatest intellectual threats to traditio...
Why does God permit suffering in the world? If God is wholly good, omnipotent, and omniscient, why w...
It is sometimes thought that the Problem of Evil entails the inexistence of God. However, this is no...
Given plausible assumptions about the nature of evidence and undercutting defeat, many believe that ...