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Divine foreknowledge and necessity
, 1996 The central aim of this dissertation is to defend the thesis that divine foreknowledge is compatible with (a full-blooded libertarian conception of) human freedom.
Song, In-Kyu
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Providence as “Responsible Risk-Taking”
TheoLogicaThis paper explores the concept of divine providence in the framework of open theism, focusing on the balance between God’s sovereignty and creaturely libertarian free will.
Johannes Grössl
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Avicenna on Activity/Receptivity of God’s Essence with respect to the Intelligible Forms of Beings: A Reading from the perspective of the Unity of Activity and Receptivity in Simple Entities [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2019 Avicenna contends that God’s essence is active and receptive of intelligible forms and believes this to be an example of the principle of the unity of activity and receptivity in simple entities in relation to their implications.
sayyed mohammad entezam
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Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both
Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
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Can Libertarian Free Will be Reconciled with Divine Providence?
TheoLogicaI try to reconcile libertarian free will for created agents with a qualified understanding of divine providence. Divine providence is not absolute, since created agents have some say in how things go in the universe.
Katherin Rogers
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Risk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT From all the knowledge that would emerge as relevant to it over infinite time, a risk analysis must be based on the cross‐section available at its undertaking. This creates a knowledge gap, which can lead to surprises. To address a similar problem in economic decision‐making, G. L. S. Shackle developed potential surprise theory (PST).
James Derbyshire
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BJUI Compass, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2026.Abstract Objective This study aims to investigate any differences in the levels of intra‐operative (measured by an artificial intelligence device) and post‐operative pain between two different abdominal insufflators (AirSeal vs Stryker) used for a low‐pressure pneumoperitoneum robotic prostatectomy.
Nikhil Vasdev +18 more
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Why Infallible Divine Foreknowledge cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, but its Mechanics Might
, 2012 It is not uncommon to think that the existence of exhaustive and infallible divine foreknowledge uniquely threatens the existence of human freedom. This paper shows that this cannot be so.
Byerly, T.R.
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Ostium, 2013 C. Hughes has raised some interesting questions regarding the explanation of divine foreknowledge in the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. The difficulties in understanding Aquinas originate not so much in his texts, but rather in a search for a deeper ...
Ľuboš Rojka
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The Relational Dimension in Gestalt Psychotherapy: Epistemological and Clinical Aspects
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Volume 65, Issue S1, Page S67-S76, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article reframes Gestalt psychotherapy as intrinsically relational: experience and self‐emerge from contact at the organism–environment boundary and from the field/situation. We revisit ambiguities in the Perls/Goodman model against a brief historical background and articulate a pragmatic stance grounded in the id of the situation and ...
Pietro Andrea Cavaleri +1 more
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