Freedom Fatalism And Foreknowledge
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Author | : John Martin Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199942390 |
This book collects sixteen previously published articles on fatalism, truths about the future, and the relationship between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. It includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Many of the pieces collected here build bridges between discussions of human freedom and recent developments in other areas of metaphysics, such as philosophy of time.
Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 1990-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004246681 |
The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in "The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge" and "Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez" (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.
Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1996-04-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195355407 |
This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski concludes that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. The discussion includes the relation between the foreknowledge dilemma and problems about the nature of time and the causal relation; the logic of counterfactual conditionals; and the differences between divine and human knowing states. An appendix introduces a new foreknowledge dilemma that purports to show that omniscient foreknowledge conflicts with deep intuitions about temporal asymmetry, quite apart from considerations of free will. Zagzebski shows that only a narrow range of solutions can handle this new dilemma. A compelling contribution to the field, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge will appeal to students and scholars of theistic philosophy and the philosophy of religion.
Author | : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195107632 |
This text examines the three traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will. It rejects those from Boethius, Ockham, and from Molina, and proposes three new solutions, concluding that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom.
Author | : Abraham Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1763 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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Author | : John Martin Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199311293 |
Our Fate collects John Martin Fischer's previously published articles on the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human freedom. The book includes a substantial new introductory essay that puts all of the chapters into a cohesive framework, and presents a bold new account of God's foreknowledge of free actions in a causally indeterministic world.
Author | : William L. Craig |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2000-01-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498276636 |
Does God know our actions before we do them? And if so, do human beings truly have free will? Dr. Craig contends that both of these notions are compatible, showing how the Bible teaches divine foreknowledge of human free acts, and reveals two ways of "reconciling divine omniscience with human freedom".
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
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Author | : T. Ryan Byerly |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 162356686X |
How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.
Author | : T. Ryan Byerly |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1623567882 |
How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.