UID:
almahu_9949703362802882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 360 pages)
ISBN:
9789004246683
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 19
Content:
The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts? Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez (Brill: 1988), William Lane Craig now attempts to address these issues critically. His wide-ranging discussion brings together a thought- provoking array of related topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological fatalism and related fields and as a stimulating assessment of the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future free acts.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Theological Fatalism -- Chapter Two: Reduction of Theological to Logical Fatalism -- Chapter Three: Logical Fatalism -- Chapter Four: Suggested Escapes From Fatalism -- Chapter Five: \'Within One's Power\' -- Chapter Six: Backward Causation -- Chapter Seven: \'Within One's Power\' Once More -- Chapter Eight: Transition to Theological Fatalism -- Chapter Nine: Temporal Necessity -- Chapter Ten: Newcomb's Paradox -- Chapter Eleven: Foreknowledge and Freedom of God -- Chapter Twelve: The Basis of Divine Foreknowledge -- Chapter Thirteen: Middle Knowledge -- Appendix: Is the Special Theory of Relativity Fatalistic? -- Notes to Preface -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1991, ISBN 9789004092501
Language:
English
