THE ARGUMENT OF EVIL FOR ATHEISM.
Accordin g to Ian church professor of philosophy at Hillsdale college in Michigan, while many philosophers affirm the logic of the rebuttal, many also still find it deeply unsatisfying.
Even though many philosophers admit that the existence of evil, they argue that give our experience of evil,it still seems unlikely that there is a God like this.
This leads experimental philosophers to wonder what sort of experience, and whose experience is informing these skeptical sentiments.
THINKING CROSS_CULTURALLY
Church is one such experimental philosophers,are working to design and carry out a major cross_cultural survey of intuitive reasoning about evil. We are trying to see if there is any variance in our intuition about evil,and if so ,what accounts for the variance.
Does such variance give us reason to trust one persons intuition_even our own_over another's?
It is not necessarily the Case that everyone's intuition should always be counted equally.If you are talking about a specific technical western aspect of knowledge, then maybe it is okay to trust the intuition of westerners. But while some Western trained philosophers may see pervasive suffering as intuitively incompatible with religious belief, there is little reason to think that their intuitions are universally shared. After all,it notes, people from developing countries_where there is ongoing civil war or genocide, where there is starvation is a real threat and where there is a real suffering all around then often have some of the strongest faith.
Robust cross_cultural data Will be a starting point for evaluating the range of intuitive judgments with which people respond to suffering and evil. In order to make sure their survey as the right question and minimize the chance of researchers and respondents simply talking penst each other.
The beginning of the project will be with a careful examination of current philosophical and theological work on the problem of Evil.
Then they will collaborate with others to design and Carry out the intuition_probing survey with various groups around the world.
We are trying to see where the in sights of experimental philosophy might be in formative. If the argument are being use to draw the Atheiat 's conclusion don't draw on in tuitions or intuitive reasoning _if they are purely a matter of logic_then it's difficult to know how to apply an experimental methology.But if these arguments takes their starting point our personal knowledge of Evil or our experience of evil,then we can see if the underlying psychological constructs are shared cross _culturally.
A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD
Although the project addresses a category of opinions already strongly held by Atheist's and theists,church remain agnostic about the survey implications.
The way this project is set up could undermine many of the seminal version of the argument of evil for Atheism.
In so doing it might intellectual support for theism,but I think this project is a DOUBLE EDGED SWORD_the results could also cut against argument that favor theisms. 👇
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