Truth, consequences, and the Evil-god challenge: a response to Anastasia Scrutton
In her 2016 article in Religious Studies, Anastasia Scrutton attempts to undermine Stephen Law's Evil-god challenge by arguing that belief in a good god is more justified than belief in an evil god, despite the alethic similarity of the two hypotheses. Drawing on the epistemological theory of p...
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Religious studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 447-454 |
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God
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