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Sceptical Agnosticism
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Abstract Agnostics as well as theists should answer evidential arguments from evil, at least when confronted with them. In this paper, I answer such an argument by appealing to sceptical agnosticism. A sceptical agnostic is not only undecided about the existence of a perfectly good and omnipotent God, but al... view more
Agnostics as well as theists should answer evidential arguments from evil, at least when confronted with them. In this paper, I answer such an argument by appealing to sceptical agnosticism. A sceptical agnostic is not only undecided about the existence of a perfectly good and omnipotent God, but also believes that we cannot make any judgement about whether or not seemingly gratuitous evil probably is gratuitous. I argue that such agnosticism has several advantages compared with sceptical theism.... view less
Keywords
ISSP; religion; faith; god
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Free Keywords
sceptical agnosticism; sceptical theism; omni-God; the problem of evil; global scepticism; ISSP 2008
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 31-43
Journal
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 13 (2023) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/22105700-bja10026
ISSN
2210-5700
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed