Alexander Pruss's Blog

A messy Irenaean world which leaves much to be desired and then grows in value due to our contribution has a great value. A perfectionistic...

From time to time I wonder why it is that we focus on big evils in discussing the problem of evil. After all, first consider this argument: ...

In his 1979 classic paper , Rowe says that a necessary condition for an “omniscient, wholly good ( O G ) being” to fail to prevent an evil s...

From childhood, I remember the Polish Christmas carol “Amidst the Silence of Night” from around the beginning of the 19th century, and I re...

In the last couple of decades, the most prominent argument from evil is base on the idea that God couldn’t allow a gratuitous evil. Here is ...

Suppose, highly controversially, that no defensible atheist account of objective value is possible. Now consider a paradigmatic apparently g...

Suppose we keep fixed in our epistemic background K general facts about human life and the breadth and depth of evil in the world, and cons...

There is some discussion in the literature whether the problem of hiddenness is a species of the problem of evil. I think the theist should ...

It’s mildly interesting to note, when evaluating the evidential impact of evil, that there can be evil events that would be evidence for the...

The examples, like Rowe’s, of evils in the inductive argument from evil are chosen to make them have a certain epistemic feature F . And the...

Suppose we know of some evil e 1 , and careful further investigation clearly fails to turn up justification that God would have to allow tha...

When people learn that some apparently really decent person was a hypocrite who secretly practiced execrable vices, that tends to shake peop...

An argument from evil against the existence of God based on sports injuries would not, I think, be found very persuasive. Why not? I take i...

People sometimes wonder, perhaps in connection with the problem of evil, whether there is in total more good than evil in the world. The con...

There is a delight in competing athletically with one’s child: if they win, it feels good, and if one wins, it feels good, too. (The hedonic...

The Analytic Collective and SCP are having an inaugural online session on August 21 at 4-5:30 pm Eastern Time to discuss Scott Hill's f...

I think the following two claims are plausible: If God exists and there is a lot of evil, then we would expect that some of the evil is su...

Consider this standard bit of dialectic. One gives a Free Will Defense relying on the logical possibility of Trans-World Depravity: TWD 1 ...

There is a messy little gap in how the Free Will Defense is sometimes thought about—or at least has been thought about by me. First it is ar...

Here is an interesting result. If the Biblical account of creation is true, then Plantinga’s Trans-World Depravity (TWD) thesis is false. Al...