The problem of evil / Michael Tooley. [Electronic resource]

Contents: 1. Some important distinctions.-- 1.1. Relevant concepts of God.-- 1.2. Incompatibility formulations versus inductive formulations.-- 1.3. Abstract versus concrete formulations.-- 1.4. Axiological versus deontological formulations.-- 2. The Choice between Incompatibility formulations and evidential formulations.-- 3. Inductive versions of the argument from evil.-- 3. 1. Arguments.--3.2 Direct inductive versions of the evidential argument from evil.-- 3.3 Indirect inductive versions of the evidential argument from evil.--3.4. William Rowe’s Bayesian-style probabilistic versions of the evidential argument from evil.-3. 5. Inductive logic and the evidential argument from evil.-- 4. Responses to the argument from evil: refutations, theodicies, and defenses.--5.
Attempted total refutations.--6. Attempted defenses.-- 6.2. Belief in the existence of God as non-inferentially justified.-- 6.3 Induction based on partial success.-- 7. Theodicies.-- 7. 1. A soul-making theodicy.-- 7. 2. Free will.-- 7.3 The freedom to do great evil.-- 7.4 The need for natural laws.--7.5. Religious theodicies.-- 8. More modest variants on defenses and theodicies.-- Bibliography.-- Other internet resources TAGS, evil, atheism,