Mutual epistemic dependence and the demographic divine hiddenness problem

Baker-Hytch, Max

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“…For there are plenty of defeaters which might threaten to overturn theistic seemings for a person. Anderson (2017) discusses a related point when she asks whether God might be expected to defeat any potential defeaters a person comes to have for their theistic belief. Space limitations restrict a full discussion of the issue here, but I would suggest that a solution to this problem might be found by appealing to other propositions (e.g.…”

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Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch

Blanton

2023

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In his article ‘Divine Hiddenness and the Demographics of Theism’ Stephen Maitzen (2006) develops a permutation of the argument from divine hiddenness which focuses on the uneven distribution of theistic belief around the globe. Max Baker-Hytch (2016) responds to this argument by providing a theodicy which appeals to the fact that humans are epistemically interdependent. In this article I argue that Baker-Hytch's response is at best incomplete and at worst relies on a faulty modal judgement. After exploring some ways Baker-Hytch might salvage his theodicy and maintaining their failure, I conclude with the success of Maitzen's argument.

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Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch

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2023

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“…Another recent reply to Maitzen is from Max Baker‐Hytch (). Baker‐Hytch notices what Mawson overlooks and indeed devotes some effort to dealing with the view about perfect love mentioned above.…”

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Divine hiddenness: Part 2 (recent enlargements of the discussion)

Schellenberg

2017

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Offered here is Part 2 of a two-part critical survey of recent work in philosophy on divine hiddenness. Part 1 surveyed recent development of the discussion initiated by my 1993 book on the subject. Here, I examine some related work that expands the scope of the hiddenness discussion. Some of the enlargements take further the discussion of Stephen Maitzen's work on the demographics of theism. Others introduce new hiddenness problems and ways of dealing with them. A third category of new work urges theological constraints, of one sort or another, on hiddenness reasoning, thus raising new methodological issues. | INTRODUCTIONThis is the second of two articles critically surveying recent work on divine hiddenness in philosophy. More than 60 papers and books dealing with hiddenness themes have appeared in the past six years, since an earlier survey article of mine was published (Schellenberg, 2010). Realizing that I could not address all of these and wishing to enable a reasonable treatment of those I did include, I decided to break my survey into two parts. Part 1 (Schellenberg, 2017) looked at recent philosophical work on the hiddenness argument for atheism descended from my book Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason (Schellenberg, 1993). Now, in Part 2, I consider recent work not easily seen as belonging to that stream of discussion but related to it by family resemblance-work on arguments about hiddenness other than my argument, some of them quite new, and work that, though sometimes applied to my argument, more decidedly than any that came before seeks insight on a range of hiddenness issues from theology, raising a number of methodological issues as it does so. | NEW WORK ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THEISMTen years ago, Stephen Maitzen expanded the number of hiddenness issues to be considered by arguing that the highly uneven or lopsided distribution of theistic belief in the world is much more likely on naturalism than on theism (Maitzen, 2006). This problem he called a problem about the "demographics" of theism. A recent reply to Maitzen comes from T. J. Mawson (2012). Maitzen had argued that responses appealing to free will are inapplicable to the demographics problem. But Mawson observes that neglected in Maitzen's discussion of free will is the fact that, through the exercise of free will, people can affect how much and where belief in God spreads, with an uneven

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An Evidential Argument for Theism from the Cognitive Science of Religion

Braddock

2018

New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion

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Mutual epistemic dependence and the demographic divine hiddenness problem

Cited by 8 publications

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Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch

Divine hiddenness, the demographics of theism, and mutual epistemic dependence: a response to Max Baker-Hytch

Divine hiddenness: Part 2 (recent enlargements of the discussion)

An Evidential Argument for Theism from the Cognitive Science of Religion

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