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Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199942404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Freedom, Fatalism, and ForeknowledgeDDC classification:
  • 149/.8
LOC classification:
  • BJ1461 -- .F744 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Arguments for Fatalism -- 1. Fate -- 2. Fatalism -- 3. Truth and Freedom -- 4. The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks -- 5. Fatalism, Incompatibilism, and the Power to Do Otherwise -- 6. Presentism and Fatalism -- 7. Compatibilist Options -- Part II The Problem of Foreknowledge -- 8. Omniscience and the Arrow of Time -- 9. Troubles with Ockhamism -- 10. Presentism and Ockham's Way Out -- 11. Geachianism -- 12. On Augustine's Way Out -- Part III The Logic of Future Contingents -- 13. The Meaning of "Is Going to Be" -- 14. It Was to Be -- 15. Future Contingents and Relative Truth -- 16. In Defense of Ockhamism -- Bibliography (compiled by Patrick Todd) -- Index.
Summary: The book collects previously published articles on fatalism and the relationship between divine foreknolwedge and human freedom and includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. The introductory essay seeks to provide an analytic framework for the articles, and it highlights connections between free will and recent work on metaphysical dependence.
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Cover -- Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Arguments for Fatalism -- 1. Fate -- 2. Fatalism -- 3. Truth and Freedom -- 4. The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks -- 5. Fatalism, Incompatibilism, and the Power to Do Otherwise -- 6. Presentism and Fatalism -- 7. Compatibilist Options -- Part II The Problem of Foreknowledge -- 8. Omniscience and the Arrow of Time -- 9. Troubles with Ockhamism -- 10. Presentism and Ockham's Way Out -- 11. Geachianism -- 12. On Augustine's Way Out -- Part III The Logic of Future Contingents -- 13. The Meaning of "Is Going to Be" -- 14. It Was to Be -- 15. Future Contingents and Relative Truth -- 16. In Defense of Ockhamism -- Bibliography (compiled by Patrick Todd) -- Index.

The book collects previously published articles on fatalism and the relationship between divine foreknolwedge and human freedom and includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. The introductory essay seeks to provide an analytic framework for the articles, and it highlights connections between free will and recent work on metaphysical dependence.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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