Fischer on Foreknowledge and Explanatory Dependence
I explore several issues raised in John Martin Fischer's Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will. First I discuss whether an approach to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge that appeals directly to the claim that God's beliefs depend on the future is importantly different from Ockhamism...
| Subtitles: | Book Symposium: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays On God And Free Will" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2017]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 51-61 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fischer, John Martin 1952-, Our fate
/ Prescience
/ Ockhamism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | I explore several issues raised in John Martin Fischer's Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will. First I discuss whether an approach to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge that appeals directly to the claim that God's beliefs depend on the future is importantly different from Ockhamism. I suggest that this dependence approach has advantages over Ockhamism. I also argue that this approach gives us good reason to reject the claim that the past is fixed. Finally, I discuss Fischer's proposal regarding God's knowledge of future contingents. I suggest that it may be able to secure comprehensive foreknowledge. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.2034 |