Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2010
I defend Peter van Inwagen's no-minimum response to the problem of evil from a recent objection raised by Jeff Jordan.
1. Assumptions like the standard claim are used to motivate evidential versions of the problem of evil. The most well-known example comes from Rowe, William ‘The problem of evil and some varieties of atheism’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 16 (1979), 335–341Google Scholar.
2. van Inwagen, Peter ‘The problem of evil, the problem of air, and the problem of silence’, Philosophical Perspectives, 5 (1991), 135–165CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also idem ‘The magnitude, duration, and distribution of evil: a theodicy’, Philosophical Topics, 16 (1988), 161–167CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3. Jordan, Jeff ‘Evil and van Inwagen’, Faith and Philosophy, 20 (2003), 236–239CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
4. Ibid., 237.
5. Ibid., 238.
6. Ibid.