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Michael Tooley

University of Colorado, Boulder
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    Causes and Coincidences
    Philosophical Review 103 (3): 546. 1994.
    Theories of Causation, Misc
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    Value and Reality: The Philosophical Case for Theism
    with A. C. Ewing
    Philosophical Review 85 (1): 115. 1976.
    The Number of Gods
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    Plantinga's defence of the ontological argument
    Mind 90 (359): 422-427. 1981.
    Philosophy of ReligionThe Argument from Evil
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    Closing statement and reponse to Plantinga's comments
    In Alvin Plantinga & Michael Tooley (eds.), Knowledge of God, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Plantinga's Responses to My Two Arguments Is Belief in God Non‐Inferentially Justified? The Argument from Evil Versus Justifications for Believing in the Existence of God Concluding Comment: Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and Theism.
    Philosophy of ReligionReformed Epistemology
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    Alvin Plantinga and the argument from evil
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (4). 1980.
    Among the central theses defended in this paper are the following. First, the logical incompatibility version of the argument from evil is not one of the crucial versions, and Plantinga, in fostering the illusion that it is, seriously misrepresents claims advanced by other philosophers. Secondly, Plantinga’s arguments against the thesis that the existence of any evil at all is logically incompatible with God’s existence. Thirdly, Plantinga’s attempt to demonstrate that the existence of a certain…Read more
    The Argument from Evil