God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will

ISBN-13: 9780197556412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Laura W. Ekstrom

Recenzje

Laura Ekstrom is the very rare sort of philosopher who has done important work on both sides of the debate over the problem of evil. This is perhaps part of the explanation for why she is so successful in treating her opponents' positions with the level of care, rigor, and philosophical and theological sensitivity on display in this book. Whereas Ekstrom's earlier work developed what she calls the "divine intimacy" theodicy, this book subjects both theodical and defensive approaches to the problem of evil (including her own) to trenchant critique. It is an important contribution to the literature in philosophy of religion and quite simply the best and most comprehensive anti-theistic treatment of the problem of evil that I have encountered.

O autorze

Laura W. Ekstrom is Francis S. Haserot Professor of Philosophy at William & Mary. Ekstrom is the author of Free Will: A Philosophical Study (Westview Press, 1999) and the editor of Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom (Westview Press, 2000). Her articles on free agency, autonomy, moral responsibility, chance, suffering, and compassion have appeared in journals including Synthese, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, American Philosophical Quarterly, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Australasian Journal of Philosophy, as well as in edited collections published by such presses as Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press.