美国Loyola Marymount大学哲学系Daniel Speak教授短期讨论班

题目：Problem of Evil。

时间： 四次课

3月17日（周四）、21日（周一）、23日（周三）、24日（周四）的晚上7：00－9：00。

地点：北京大学外国哲学研究所会议室（老化学楼227房间）。

讲课的语言为英语。欢迎有兴趣的同学参加。

附Daniel Speak教授简历：

Daniel Speak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Moderator, Philosophy Society
Ph.D., University of California Riverside,
Specialties: Metaphysics (esp. of the free will), Philosophy of Action, Moral Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion

Selected Publications:
“The Impertinence of Frankfurt-style Argument,” The Philosophical Quarterly, January, 2007.
“Salvation Without Belief,” Religious Studies, 2007.
“Semi-Compatibilism and Stalemate,” Philosophical Explorations 8, 2005: 95-102.
“PAPistry: Another Defense,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 29: Free Will and Moral Reponsibility [Oxford: Blackwell, 2005].
“Toward an Axiological Defense of Libertarianism,” Philosophical Topics, Vol. 32, 2004.
“Fanning the Flickers of Freedom,” American Philosophical Quarterly 39, 2002: 91-105.

课程提纲：
Problem of Evil (Mini-Course)
For Peking University

Text: God and the Problem of Evil, ed. by William Rowe (Blackwell, 2001).

Session #1       Introductions
Readings:       Leibniz (pp. 4-23)
                      Hume (pp. 38-56)

I. Introductory material
         A. Three (or Four) Problems of Evil
                  1. The Personal Problem
                  2. The Logical Problem
                  3. The Evidential Problem
                  4. The Problem of Hiddenness

II. Historical antecedents
         A. Leibniz
         B. Hume

Session #2       The Logical Problem of Evil
Readings:            Mackie (pp. 77-90)
                     Plantinga (pp. 91-120)

I. The Theistic Set

II. It’s Putative Inconsistency

III. Theodicy vs. Defense
A.     Natural vs. Moral Evil
B.     Alternative approaches
C.     The Free Will Defense

IV. Plantinga’s Development of the Free Will Defense

Session #3       The Evidential Problem of Evil
Readings:       “An Exchange on the Problem of Evil” (pp. 124-158)

I. The Inductive Argument for Atheism
A.     Amount and Kinds of Evil
B.     Rowe’s Argument

II. Responses to the Inductive Argument
A.     The Moorean Shift
B.     Skeptical Theism

Session #4       The Problem of Hiddenness
Readings:       van Inwagen (pp. 201-233)

I. What is the Problem?

II. Theistic Responses
A.     The Threat of Divine Revelation
B.     The Value of Divine Silence