Fischer's Fate with Fatalism

John Martin Fischer's core project in Our Fate (2016) is to develop and defend Pike-style arguments for theological incompatibilism, i. e., for the view that divine omniscience is incompatible with human free will. Against Ockhamist attacks on such arguments, Fischer maintains that divine foreb...

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Subtitles:Book Symposium: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays On God And Free Will"
Main Author: Jäger, Christoph 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham [2017]
In: European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 25-38
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Fischer, John Martin 1952-, Our fate / Prescience / Free will / Fatalism
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
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Summary:John Martin Fischer's core project in Our Fate (2016) is to develop and defend Pike-style arguments for theological incompatibilism, i. e., for the view that divine omniscience is incompatible with human free will. Against Ockhamist attacks on such arguments, Fischer maintains that divine forebeliefs constitute so-called hard facts about the times at which they occur, or at least facts with hard ‘kernel elements'. I reconstruct Fischer's argument and outline its structural analogies with an argument for logical fatalism. I then point out some of the costs of Fischer's reasoning that come into focus once we notice that the set of hard facts is closed under entailment.
Contains:Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.2027