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Divine Omniscience and Human Free Will: A Logical and Metaphysical Analysis

Divine Omniscience and Human Free Will: A Logical and Metaphysical Analysis

de Florio, Ciro
Frigerio, Aldo

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion

PhilosophyLogic

ISBN10: 3030312992
ISBN13: 9783030312992
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 26 2019
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise? If all our choices are already written, is our freedom simply an illusion? This book provides a precise analysis of this dilemma using the tools of modern metaphysics and logic of time. With a focus on three intertwined concepts - God's nature, the formal structure of time, and the metaphysics time, including the relationship between temporal entities and a timeless God - the chapters analyse various solutions to the problem of foreknowledge and freedom, revealing the advantages and drawbacks of each. Building on this analysis, the authors advance constructive solutions, showing under what conditions an entity can be omniscient in the presence of free agents, and whether an eternal entity can know the tensed futures of the world. The metaphysics of time, its topology and the semantics of future tensed sentences are shown to be invaluable topics in dealing with this issue.

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