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Potential Surprise Theory as a Practical and Theoretical Cornerstone of the Uncertainty-Based Perspective on Risk. [PDF]
Risk AnalABSTRACT 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).
Derbyshire J.
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Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi on Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2020 The present paper aims to explore the medieval philosopher Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s (d. pre-560 AH/1164-5) position concerning the problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will and argues Abū al-Barakāt to have considered the argument for ...
Mariam Shehata
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TheoLogica, 2022 Dean Zimmerman is an open theist. However, he has constructed an argument to the effect that, if simple foreknowledge (foreknowledge without middle knowledge) did exist, this knowledge would be providentially useful to God.
William Hasker
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Foreknowledge requires determinism [PDF]
, 2022 There is a longstanding argument that purports to show that divine foreknowledge is inconsistent with human freedom to do otherwise. Proponents of this argument, however, have for some time been met with the following reply: the argument posits what ...
Todd, Patrick, Patrick Todd
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Divine and Conventional Frankfurt Examples [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 The principle of alternate possibilities (PAP) says that you are morally praiseworthy or blameworthy for something you do only if you could have done otherwise. Frankfurt examples are putative counterexamples to PAP.
Ishtiyaque Haji
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A Consideration of William Hasker's Open Theism Solution to Theological Fatalism [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018 William Hasker is one of the most important figures of open theism. The main characteristic of open theism is the denial of the divine foreknowledge to free actions in the future.
Fatemeh Ghalkhanbaz +2 more
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Profil, 2021 In this article, the authors give an answer to the question of whether God would be worthy of worship had He created (or even permitted) a world where no human action was freely done.
Davor Pećnjak, Tvrtko Jolić
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Is Divine Providence Risky? A Dialogue Between John Calvin and John Sanders
Conspectus, 2022 This study presents John Calvin and John Sanders as an example of the ongoing debate on the nature of divine control and human freedom. Given the time gap between Calvin and Sanders, the study uses a dialogical hermeneutics methodology.
Aku Stephen Antombikums
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Surveying Problem of God’s Foreknowledge in Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s view and Open Theism [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020 Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’ is one of the philosophers who have denied God’s foreknowledge. His view is influenced by his thoughts about Divine Knowledge, changes in Divine Will, and attribution of temporality to Him.
Seyed Mohammad Ali Dibaji +1 more
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Plantinga on Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019 In each one of the well-known Abrahamic religions, notably Islam, Christianity and Judaism, there are two important doctrines which seem to be inconsistent, but nonetheless some religious philosophers like Plantinga try to show that there is no conflict ...
عبدالرزاق حسامی فر
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