The dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Omniscience.

God.

Free will and determinism.

Time--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

1 The Foreknowledge Dilemmas

1. Introduction

2. Necessity per accidens: the necessity of the past

3. The rejection of logical fatalism

4. Two versions of the dilemma of theological fatalism

5. Solutions to the theological dilemma

2 The Boethian Solution

2. God's eternity

3. Objections to the timeless knowledge solution

4. Conclusion

3 The Ockhamist Solution

2. Ockham

3. Contemporary Ockhamist accounts

4. A defense of Thomistic Ockhamism

5. A solution to the timeless knowledge dilemma

4 Foreknowledge, Causal Relations, and Subjunctive Conditionals

2. Backward-looking subjunctives and causal relations

3. Forward-looking subjunctives and causal relations

4. Subjunctive conditionals and metaphysical laws

5 The Molinist Solution

2. Conditional Excluded Middle and the asymmetry of time

3. Objections to middle knowledge

4. Objections to my view on middle knowledge

6 Two More Solutions of My Own

2. Free will and the ability to do otherwise

3. Solutions to the timeless knowledge dilemma

4. A model of foreknowledge: the fourth dimension

5. Conclusion

Appendix: A New Foreknowledge Dilemma

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-535540-7

0-585-32787-4

OCLC:

476013118