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dc.contributor.authorCawdron, Harvey
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-28T11:30:11Z
dc.date.available2023-06-28T11:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-24
dc.identifier286919369
dc.identifier0669080c-d81f-414e-9abe-4f784f8a5934
dc.identifier85162908031
dc.identifier.citationCawdron , H 2023 , ' Cosmopsychism and the problem of evil ' , Sophia . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-023-00965-0en
dc.identifier.issn0038-1527
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27817
dc.description.abstractCosmopsychism, the idea that the universe is conscious, is experiencing something of a revival as an explanation of consciousness in philosophy of mind and is also making inroads into philosophy of religion. In the latter field, it has been used to formulate models of certain forms of theism, such as pantheism and panentheism, and has also been proposed as a rival to the classical theism of the Abrahamic faiths. It has been claimed by Philip Goff that a certain form of cosmopsychism, namely agentive cosmopsychism, poses a threat to classical theism because it can explain features of the universe like fine-tuning without having to deal with the problem of evil. This is because, unlike the classical theist, the cosmopsychist can deny at least one of the divine attributes motivating the problem of evil, namely omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence. In this paper, I shall consider which of the divine attributes the cosmopsychist should focus on when responding to the problem of evil and shall conclude that the rejection of omnibenevolence is the most satisfactory option.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSophiaen
dc.subjectCosmopsychismen
dc.subjectClassical theismen
dc.subjectEvilen
dc.subjectFine-tuningen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectBL Religionen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectNISen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.subject.lccBLen
dc.titleCosmopsychism and the problem of evilen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11841-023-00965-0
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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