The evil God challenge is an argumentative strategy that has been pursued by a number of
philosophers in recent years. It is apt to be understood as a parody argument: a wholly evil, …

A familiar criticism of religious belief starts from the claim that a typical religious believer
holds the particular religious beliefs she does just because she happened to be raised in a …

That testimony is one of the principle bases on which many people hold their religious beliefs
is hard to dispute. Equally hard to dispute is that our world contains an array of mutually …

Many epistemologists are enamored with a defeat condition on knowledge. 1 While the details
can differ considerably, these “defeatists” tend to agree that in addition to a belief’s being …

While sin-based responses to divine hiddenness arguments are a road less travelled, they
do nonetheless have a number of defenders in the contemporary divine hiddenness literature…

Analytic theology is often seen as an outgrowth of analytic philosophy of religion. It isn’t fully
clear, however, whether it differs from analytic philosophy of religion in some important way. …

Religious faith is frequently derided by the New Atheists as consisting of propositional
beliefs in absurd claims. What is striking about such an understanding of faith is how it so …

In his article ‘Divine hiddenness and the demographics of theism’ (Religious Studies, 42 (2006),
177–191) Stephen Maitzen develops a novel version of the atheistic argument from …

This essay argues that certain cases involving what I shall term complexly based belief, where
a belief is formed via complex inference to the best explanation, pose a serious difficulty …

Speculation about what a heavenly existence would be like has been a pervasive feature of
human thought down through the centuries. There are many intriguing puzzles lurking here, …