1st Edition
Optimism and the Best Possible World A Philosophical History
1. Introduction Justin J. Daeley
2. Optimism in Plato and the Neoplatonic Tradition Katherin A. Rogers
3. Thomas Aquinas and the (No) Best Possible World B. Kyle Keltz
4. Leibniz’s Optimism and the Problem of Evil Julia Weckend
5. Rousseau versus Voltaire on Optimism Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
6. Jonathan Edwards and the Early New England Theistic Optimism Justin J. Daeley
7. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Melioristic Turn in the Optimism Debate Lloyd Strickland
8. Non-theistic Optimism in Recent Philosophy Eric Steinhart
9. The Argument from Addition for No Best World Daniel Rubio
10. An Unsurpassable World Nevin Climenhaga
11. The Best of Everything Graham Oppy
Biography
Justin J. Daeley teaches philosophy for Liberty University (online), Lynchburg Virginia, USA. Daeley specializes in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and Leibniz studies. He has published in academic journals like Sophia, Religious Studies, Philosophia Christi, and The Leibniz Review. His most recent book publication is Why God Must Do What Is Best: A Philosophical Investigation of Theistic Optimism (2021).
