A Note on Johnson’s ‘A Refutation of Skeptical Theism’

In a recent article, David Kyle Johnson has claimed to have provided a ‘refutation’ of skeptical theism. Johnson’s refutation raises several interesting issues. But in this note, I focus on only one—an implicit principle Johnson uses in his refutation to update probabilities after receiving new evid...

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Main Author: Perrine, Timothy (Author)
Contributors: Johnson, David Kyle (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2015]
In: Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-43
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Conditional probabilities
B Bayes’ theorem
B Skeptical theism
B David Kyle Johnson
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