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Defeating the Evil God Challenge

Disciplines:
philosophy/analytic philosophy
theology/philosophy of religion
theology/theodicy

Summary

Defeating the Evil God Challenge (2023) by Dr. Jack Symes is a philosophical work that engages and attempts to refute Stephen Law's 'Evil God Challenge' — the argument that if the evidential problem of evil defeats belief in an omnibenevolent God, it should equally defeat belief in an omnimalevolent God, symmetrically undermining theism.

Core Contribution

Systematic philosophical engagement with the Evil God Challenge; contributes to contemporary theodicy and philosophy of religion by arguing that the evil god hypothesis is not evidentially symmetric with the good God hypothesis.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • evil god challenge
  • theodicy
  • philosophy of religion
  • Stephen Law
  • problem of evil

Historical Influences

Stephen Law Richard Swinburne Alvin Plantinga Philip Goff

Intellectual Lineage

Dr. Jack Symes Analytic philosophy of religion Theodicy tradition

Allied Works

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast Talking About Philosophy

Contemporaries & Peers

Philip Goff's consciousness workStephen Law analytic theology

Minds Influenced

Philosophy of religion theodicy debateacademic theology

Intellectual Posterity

No conceptual posterity found.

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