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dc.contributor.authorRutledge, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-27T16:31:06Z
dc.date.available2016-10-27T16:31:06Z
dc.date.issued2017-08
dc.identifier.citationRutledge , J 2017 , ' The parent analogy: a reassessment ' , International Journal for Philosophy of Religion , vol. 82 , no. 1 , pp. 5-14 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-016-9588-8en
dc.identifier.issn1572-8684
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 246332585
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 7c0f6a4f-61ce-4992-a01c-c2d5755fb041
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84990848122
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9521-8031/work/54516637
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000410184300002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9720
dc.description.abstractAccording to the parent analogy, as a caretaker’s goodness, ability and intelligence increase, the likelihood that the caretaker will make arrangements for the attainment of future goods that are unnoticed or underappreciated by their dependents also increases. Consequently, if this analogy accurately represents our relationship to God, then we should expect to find many instances of inscrutable evil in the world. This argument in support of skeptical theism has recently been criticized by Dougherty. I argue that Dougherty’s argument is incomplete, for there are two plausible ways of construing the parent analogy’s conclusion. I supplement Dougherty’s case by offering a new argument against the parent analogy based on failed expectations concerning the amount of inscrutable evils encountered in the world. Consequently, there remains a significant empirical hurdle for skeptical theism to overcome if it is to maintain its status as a defeater for our reliability when tracking gratuitous evils.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religionen
dc.rightsCopyright The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.en
dc.subjectSkeptical theismen
dc.subjectParent analogyen
dc.subjectEvilen
dc.subjectDoughertyen
dc.subjectWykstraen
dc.subjectBT Doctrinal Theologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccBTen
dc.titleThe parent analogy: a reassessmenten
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-016-9588-8
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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