Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil

Justin P. McBrayer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fort Lewis College, Colorado. He has authored numerous papers in philosophy of religion and ethics, including “CORNEA and Inductive Skepticism” (2009), “Skeptical Theism” (2010), “A Limited Defense of Moral Perception” (2010), “Skepticism about the Argument from Divine Hiddenness” (2011), and “Christianity, Homosexual Sex, and Sexism” (2012).Daniel Howard-Snyder is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University. He is co-author of The Power of Logic (2013, 5th Ed.), and editor or co-editor of various publications including The Evidential Argument from Evil (1996), Faith, Freedom, and Rationality (1996), and Divine Hiddenness: New Essays (2002).

• Notes on contributors ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xivPart I Problems of Evil 11 A brief history of problems of evil 3Michael W. Hickson2 The logical problem of evil: mackie and plantinga 19Daniel Howard-Snyder3 A new logical problem of evil 34J.L. Schellenberg4 Rowe’s evidential arguments from evil 49Graham Oppy5 Explanation and the problem of evil 67Paul Draper and Trent Dougherty6 A carnapian argument from evil 83Richard Otte7 The experience of evil and support for atheism 98Jerome Gellman8 The problem of animal pain and suffering 113Robert Francescotti9 Hell and the problem of evil 128Andrei A. Buckareff and Allen Plug10 The problem of apparently morally abhorrent divine commands 144Wesley Morriston11 God because of evil: An ad hominem argument from evil for belief in God 160Marilyn McCord AdamsPart II Theodicies 17512 A brief history of theodicy 177René van Woudenberg13 Counterpart and appreciation theodicies 192Justin P. McBrayer14 Free will and soul-making theodicies 205Daniel Speak15 The connection-building theodicy 222Robin Collins16 Best possible world theodicy 236Hud Hudson17 Providence and theodicy 251Thomas P. Flint18 A christian theodicy 266Laura W. Ekstrom19 Toward an Indian theodicy 281Purushottama Bilimoria20 Earth’s epistemic fruits for harmony with God: an Islamic theodicy 296Mohammad Ali Mobini21 On constructing a Jewish theodicy 309David Shatz22 Feminism and the problem of evil 326Beverley Clack23 Process theism and theodicies for problems of evil 340James A. Keller24 Theodicy in a vale of tears 349Evan Fales25 Antitheodicy 363N.N. TrakakisPart III Skeptical Responses 37726 A brief history of skeptical responses to evil 379T.M. Rudavsky27 Peter van Inwagen’s defense 396Meghan Sullivan28 A defense without free will 411Derk Pereboom29 Skeptical theism, CORNEA, and common sense epistemology 426Thomas D. Senor30 The moral skepticism objection to skeptical theism 444Stephen Maitzen31 The global skepticism objection to skeptical theism 458Ian Wilks32 Theistic objections to skeptical theism 468David O’Connor33 Skeptical theism and the “too much skepticism” objection 482Michael C. ReaIndex 507