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dc.contributor.authorRutledge, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-23T17:30:12Z
dc.date.available2017-01-23T17:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier248986146
dc.identifier4c1966c6-8d0c-4642-ab9b-2b5d4684a2c7
dc.identifier85014452163
dc.identifier000401420000002
dc.identifier.citationRutledge , J 2017 , ' Commonsense, skeptical theism, and different sorts of closure of inquiry defeat ' , Faith and Philosophy , vol. 34 , no. 1 , pp. 17-32 . https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil201712576en
dc.identifier.issn2153-3393
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9521-8031/work/54516638
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10162
dc.description.abstractTrent Dougherty argues (contra Jonathan Matheson) that when taking into consideration the probabilities involving skeptical theism (ST) and gratuitous evils, an agent may reasonably affirm both ST and that gratuitous evils exist. In other words, Dougherty thinks that assigning a greater than .5 probability to ST is insufficient to defeat the commonsense problem of evil. I argue that Dougherty’s response assumes, incorrectly, that ST functions solely as an evidential defeater, and that, when understood as a closure of inquiry defeater, ST may still defeat reasonable belief in gratuitous evils, even in the face of strong evidence that gratuitous evils exist.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFaith and Philosophyen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleCommonsense, skeptical theism, and different sorts of closure of inquiry defeaten
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.5840/faithphil201712576
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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