Divine omniscience and human free will : a logical and metaphysical analysis /: a logical and metaphysical analysis. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio.
• Authors: De Florio, Ciro; Frigerio, Aldo
• Contents: 1. The Battle for Free Will.- 1.1 Fatalism and Determinism.- 1.2 Logical Fatalism.- 1.2.1 Bivalence.- 1.2.2 Necessity of the past.- 1.2.3 Truth and free will.- 1.3 How to avoid the battle.- 1.4 From logical fatalism to theological fatalism.- 2. Metaphysics and Logic of Time.- 2.1 Ontology of time.- 2.2 Dynamics of time: A and B-theory.- 2.3 Dynamics and Ontology.- 2.4 Intermezzo: Persistence and Scientific Image of the World.- 2.5 Topology of Time: Closed and open universe.- 2.6 Temporal logic.- 2.6.1 Linear time.- 2.6.2 Branching time.- 2.6.3 Peircean Semantics.- 2.6.4 Thin Red Line Model.- 3. Extreme Measures.- 3.1 Open Theism.- 3.1.1 A Different Concept of God.- 3.1.2 The Openness of the Future.- 3.1.3 To What Openness is the Open Theist Committed?.- 3.1.4 Theological Difficulties.- 3.1.5 Conclusions on Open Theism.- 3.2 Theological Determinism.- 3.2.1 Non Theological Compatibilism.- 3.2.2 Theological Compatibilism.- 4. God Knows the True Future: Ockhamism.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The Ochkamist Solution.- 4.3 The True Future.- 4.4 Soft Facts.- 4.5 Metaphysics of Time and Ockhamism.- 4.5.1 Presentism and Truth.- 4.5.2 TSB Revisited.- 4.5.3 Eternalist Ockhamism.- 4.5.4 Presentist Ockhamism?.- 4.5.5 Growing Block and Spotlight Ockhamism.- 4.6 Conclusion: Is There Really an Ockham's Way Out?.- 5. Molinism.- 5.1 Conditions of freedom.- 5.2 The Structure of the Molinist World.- 5.2.1 Local TRL.- 5.2.2 Many Worlds and Normal TRL.- 5.2.3 What Answer to the Fatalist Argument?.- 5.2.4 CFs as Counterfactuals?.- 5.3 The Costs of Molinism.- 5.3.1 The Truth-Making Principle.- 5.3.2 Liberalizing TSB.- 5.4 The Costs that the Molinist does not Have to Pay.- 5.4.1 Adams' and Hasker's Arguments.- 5.4.2 What does not work in Adams' and Hasker's Arguments.- 5.4.3 Adams' argument.- 5.4.4 Hasker's argument.- 5.5 Conclusion.- 6. The Timeless Solution.- 6.1 How the Timeless Solution Works.- 6.2 Some Objections.- 6.3 Timeless God and Eternalism.- 6.4 A-Theory and Timeless God.- 6.4.1 The Semantic Debate.- 6.4.2 Assessing the Semantic Debate.- 6.4.3 The Metaphysics Debate.- 6.5 Fragmentalism and Timeless God.- 6.5.1 Perspectival Semantics.- 6.5.2 Perspectival Semantics and Eternalism.- 6.5.3 Fragmentalism.- 6.5.4 God's Knowledge and Fragmentalism.- 6.6 Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 123/.5; Free will and determinism; Time -- Philosophy; Metaphysics; God -- Omniscience; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030313005
• Related ISBNs: 303031300X; 9783030312992
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 19, 2019).
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