Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1017/s003441252300094x
Max Baker-Hytch
While sin-based responses to divine hiddenness arguments are a road less travelled, they do nonetheless have a number of defenders in the contemporary divine hiddenness literature. I begin this article by exploring the various strategies that have been employed to attempt to motivate such accounts. What none of these strategies seem to take into account, however, is a cluster of facts about the correlation (or lack thereof) between a person's propositional attitudes about God and the degree to which that person displays the relevant moral and intellectual virtues. This article aims to fill this lacuna by mapping out the options available to defenders of sin-based responses in trying to cope with this cluster of facts. I argue that there may be resources available for preserving some aspects of the sin-based approach, but that taking stock of the aforementioned facts will ultimately require the positing of causal factors besides sin in order to generate a sufficient explanation of the phenomenon of non-belief.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000689
Bakinaz Abdalla
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523001002
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523001014
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000811
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1017/s003441252300080x
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000914
Mike Almeida
Abstract In ‘Evil is Still Evidence: Comments on Almeida’ Robert Bass presents three objections to the central argument (ENE) in my ‘Evil is Not Evidence’. The first objection is that ENE is invalid. According to the second objection, it is a consequence of ENE that there can be no evidence for or against a posteriori necessities. The third objection is that, contrary to ENE, the likelihood of certain necessary identities varies with the evidence we have for them. In this reply I explain why ENE has exactly none of the implications described by Bass. I argue in the concluding section that there is a modal solution to the epistemological problems presented by ENE.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000938
Maciej Tarnowski
Abstract In this article, I consider the cases of religious Moorean propositions of the form ‘ d , but I don't believe that d ’ and ‘ d , but I believe that ~d ’, where d is a religious dogma, proposition, or part of a creed. I argue that such propositions can be genuinely and rationally asserted and that this fact poses a problem for traditional analysis of religious assertion as an expression of faith and of religious faith as entailing belief. In the article, I explore the possibility of undermining these commonly held assumptions and argue that the assertability of religious Moorean propositions can be justified by an account of faith as an intention to form religious beliefs. In the end, I also consider the consequences of such a stance, especially concerning the debate on the ethics of religious belief and doxastic voluntarism.
在本文中，我考虑了形式为' d '的宗教摩尔命题的情况，但我不相信d '和' d，但我相信~d '，其中d是宗教教义，命题或信条的一部分。我认为，这样的命题可以被真诚而理性地断言，这一事实对传统的分析提出了一个问题，即把宗教断言作为一种信仰的表达，把宗教信仰作为一种必然的信仰。在本文中，我探讨了破坏这些普遍持有的假设的可能性，并认为宗教摩尔命题的可断言性可以通过信仰作为形成宗教信仰的意图的描述来证明。最后，我还考虑了这种立场的后果，特别是关于宗教信仰伦理和专制唯意志论的辩论。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000884
Andrew Blanton
Abstract In his article ‘Divine Hiddenness and the Demographics of Theism’ Stephen Maitzen (2006) develops a permutation of the argument from divine hiddenness which focuses on the uneven distribution of theistic belief around the globe. Max Baker-Hytch (2016) responds to this argument by providing a theodicy which appeals to the fact that humans are epistemically interdependent. In this article I argue that Baker-Hytch's response is at best incomplete and at worst relies on a faulty modal judgement. After exploring some ways Baker-Hytch might salvage his theodicy and maintaining their failure, I conclude with the success of Maitzen's argument.
Stephen Maitzen(2006)在他的文章《神的隐秘性和有神论的人口统计》中，从神的隐秘性出发，对有神论信仰在全球的不均匀分布进行了论述。Max Baker-Hytch(2016)通过提供一种神正论来回应这一论点，这种神正论呼吁人类在认知上是相互依存的。在本文中，我认为Baker-Hytch的反应往好了说是不完整的，往坏了说是依赖于错误的模态判断。在探索了贝克-海奇可能挽救他的神正论并维持其失败的一些方法之后，我以Maitzen论点的成功作为结论。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000768
Ben Conroy
Abstract Using Moses Maimonides’ theodicy to respond to contemporary formulations of the problem of evil initially seems unpromising. Maimonides is committed to claims that make the task harder rather than easier. Chief among them is his belief that all suffering is deserved by the sufferer. But Maimonides is often misinterpreted: he does not hold that innocent people are never subject to bodily harm, but that it is possible to achieve a kind of ‘psychic immunity’ from suffering via intellectual enlightenment, and that failure to do so is blameworthy. I argue that while the Maimonidean psychic immunity theodicy has some attractive features, it struggles to explain ‘inculpably incomprehensible’ suffering: that of infants and people with serious cognitive disabilities. I propose two responses: defending Maimonides’ intellectual elitism using work on moral status from Singer and McMahan; and defending a more limited version of the theodicy grounded on ‘sceptical’ readings of Maimonides that emphasize the limitations of human knowledge. I conclude that the second is more promising, and that the limits of Maimonides’ theodicy point to more general limits on theodicies that insist on what I call ‘first-personal adequacy’ – the requirement that a theodicy provide a satisfying explanation of suffering to sufferers themselves.
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