Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
1 Philosophers and Religious Truth, chapter 6.
2 God and Other Minds, pp. 131–2.
3 ‘God and Evil’ in God and Evil, edited by N. Pike, p. 65.
4 Op. cit., p. 63.
5 Parallel in many ways to the moral/physical evil distinction is Mackie's distinction between first and second order evils (‘Evil and Omnipotence’ in God and Evil, pp. 46–60). It permits the classification of pain, misery and suffering, irrespective of their causes, as first order evils.
* I am grateful to A. D. M. Walker and R. G. Swinburne for their comments on an earlier draft.