A New Disproof of the Compatibility of Foreknowledge and Free Choice

Old philosophical problems never die, but they can be reinterpreted. In this paper, I offer a reinterpretation of the problem of reconciling divine omniscience and human free will. Classical discussions of this problem concentrate on the nature of God and the concept of free will. The present discus...

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1. VerfasserIn: Lackey, Douglas P. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Univ. Press [1974]
In: Religious studies
Jahr: 1974, Band: 10, Heft: 3, Seiten: 313-318
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Zusammenfassung:Old philosophical problems never die, but they can be reinterpreted. In this paper, I offer a reinterpretation of the problem of reconciling divine omniscience and human free will. Classical discussions of this problem concentrate on the nature of God and the concept of free will. The present discussion will focus attention on the concept of knowledge, drawing on developments in epistemology that resulted from the posing of a certain problem by Edmund Gettier in 1963.
ISSN:1469-901X
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500007678