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Divine foreknowledge, evidence and epistemic responsibility
TheoriaAbstractIn several recent publications, John Martin Fischer proposed a new solution to the problem of divine foreknowledge, which he dubbed the bootstrapping view. On this view, God can have limited knowledge of contingent future based on a combination of (a) God's knowledge of inconclusive evidence about the contingent world available to humans and (b)
Marcin Iwanicki, Anna Maria Karczewska
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Contra Tooley: divine foreknowledge is possible
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2019Michael Tooley’s latest argument against the possibility of divine foreknowledge trades on the idea that, whichever theory of time is true, the ontology of the future—or lack thereof—gives rise to special problems for God’s prescience. I argue that Tooley’s reasoning is predicated on two mischaracterizations and conclude that, on at least some theories
Elijah Hess
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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski on Divine Foreknowledge
Abstract In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer talk with Linda Zagzebski about the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. If God has infallible foreknowledge, then it seems that no one can do anything other than what God foreknows will happen.Taylor W. Cyr, Matthew T. Flummer
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Foreknowledge & Divine Emotions
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2022In this essay, we move to further advance the work done on God and emotions by RT Mullins, exploring the role exhaustive divine foreknowledge plays as it relates to God’s emotional life. Given our preliminary investigation at the intersection of divine foreknowledge and divine emotion, and focusing specifically on the neoclassical theistic conception ...
Michael DeVito, Tyler McNabb
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On divine foreknowledge and human freedom
Philosophical Studies, 1980Joshua Hoffman, Gary Rosenkrantz
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Religious Studies, 2000
Christian theism has traditionally claimed that God knows the future. But why is divine foreknowledge important? In this essay, I argue that divine foreknowledge is valuable to Christian theism and that a hefty theological price must be paid if it is rejected. I also attempt to show that the range of knowledge available to God in theological models
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Christian theism has traditionally claimed that God knows the future. But why is divine foreknowledge important? In this essay, I argue that divine foreknowledge is valuable to Christian theism and that a hefty theological price must be paid if it is rejected. I also attempt to show that the range of knowledge available to God in theological models
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Divine Foreknowledge and Facts
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1974In “Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom” [6] Anthony Kenny returns to a ‘very old difficulty’ stated by Aquinas at Summa Theologiae Ia, 14, 3, 3. Kenny rejects the Thomistic strategy of treating God as an atemporal knower, Who grasps all events of history simultaneously in a timeless present. He takes this notion to be neither Biblical nor coherent.
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