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Divine foreknowledge and Newcomb's paradox

Philosophia, 1987
Newcomb's Paradox thus serves as an illustrative vindication of the compatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom. A proper understanding of the counterfactual conditionals involved enables us to see that the pastness of God's knowledge serves neither to make God's beliefs counterfactually closed nor to rob us of genuine freedom.
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Divine Foreknowledge, Human Freedom and Possible Worlds

The Philosophical Review, 1977
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Divine Foreknowledge, Divine Constancy, and the Rejection of Saul’s Kingship

2015
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Divine Foreknowledge and Fatalism

1997
Abstract It is argued that the compatibility between divine foreknowledge and human libertarian freedom cannot be satisfactorily defended by an appeal to the ’hard fact’–'soft fact’ distinction. The fact that God's foreknowledge is incompatible with human indeterministic freedom does not logical determinism or fatalism.
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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom

1969
In this paper I intend to discuss whether belief in God’s foreknowledge of the future is compatible with belief in the freedom of human actions. Before stating the problem in further detail, I must make clear which problems I do not intend to consider.
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Divine Foreknowledge in De civitate Dei 5.9

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2001
It is commonly agreed that augustine's discussion of divine foreknowledge in «De civitate Dei» 5.9 is distinguished by its anti-Ciceronian polemic, but no one has analyzed the philosophical structure of this polemic to determine if it is compelling. I argue that Augustine's presentation has significant philosophical merit for two reasons.
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Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom Are Compatible

Noûs, 1997
L'A. defend la these de la compatibilite entre l'existence et l'omniscience necessaires de Dieu et la liberte humaine. Examinant le cas du fatalisme logique et le cas du fatalisme theologique, l'A. developpe une argumentation proche de celle de Plantinga, qui substitue a la distinction entre faits stricts et faits faibles les notions de consistance et ...
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Boethius on Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge

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Divine foreknowledge and divine freedom

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1978
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Divine Foreknowledge in Renaissance Philosophy

2019
This entry deals with the notion of God’s foreknowledge. First, Augustine’s position is delineated, after which follows that of Boethius, in order to introduce the theological and philosophical topics which characterized the later discussion on divine foreknowledge. Then, the focus will turn to Aquinas’ view.
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