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The Problem of Animal Pain

A Theodicy For All Creatures Great And Small

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Authors:
  1. Trent Dougherty

    1. Baylor University, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion (PFPR)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Plan of This Book

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Problem of Animal Pain

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 16-35

  4. The Bayesian Argument from Animal Pain

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 36-55

  5. Is There Really a Problem?: The Challenge of Neo-Cartesianism

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 56-76

  6. There Is a Problem: The Defeat of Neo-Cartesianism

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 77-95

  7. The Saint-Making Theodicy I: Negative Phase

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 96-117

  8. The Saint-Making Theodicy II: Positive Phase

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 118-133

  9. Animal Saints

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 134-153

  10. Animal Afterlife

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 154-178

  11. Concluding Summary

    • Trent Dougherty
    Pages 179-182

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 183-197
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About this book

Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case.

Reviews

“The soul-making position that Dougherty defends here is interesting, subtle, and bold. It represents the first serious and sustained defense of a position that, as I noted, most have written off in a sentence or two. I suspect that this book represents the beginning of a trajectory of scholarship defending soul making theodicies for animal pain and as a result is an important text for philosophers interested in the topic to read with care.” (Michael J. Murray, International Journal of the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 78, 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Baylor University, USA

    Trent Dougherty

About the author

Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Co-Director of the John Hick Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (2008). He received the Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Problem of Animal Pain

  • Book Subtitle: A Theodicy For All Creatures Great And Small

  • Authors: Trent Dougherty

  • Series Title: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443175

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-36848-4Published: 25 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34995-1Published: 01 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44317-5Published: 22 July 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6176

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6184

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 197

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics

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