Andre Leo Rusavuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andre Leo Rusavuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andre Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Rusavuk |
| SIGNATURE | RUSAVUK A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9984-7281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Luckiest of All Possible Beings: Divine Perfections and Constitutive Luck
Many theists conceive of God as a perfect being, i.e., as that than which none greater is metaphysically possible. On this grand view of God, it seems plausible to think that such a supreme and maximally great being would not be subject to luck of any sort. Given the divine perfections, God is completely insulated from luck. However, I argue that the opposite is true: precisely because God is perfect, he is subject to a kind of luck called consti…
Molinism's kryptonite: Counterfactuals and circumstantial luck
According to Molinism, logically prior to his creative decree, God knows via middle knowledge the truth value of the counterfactuals or conditionals of creaturely freedom (CFs) and thus what any possible person would do in any given circumstance. Critics of Molinism have pointed out that the Molinist God gets lucky that the CFs allow him to actualize either a world of his liking or even a good-enough world at all. In this paper, I advance and str…
Which Elections? A Dilemma for Proponents of the Duty to Vote
Proponents of the duty to vote (DTV) argue that in normal circumstances, citizens have the moral duty to vote in political elections. Discussions about DTV analyze what the duty is, who has this duty, when they have it, and why they have it. Missing are answers to the Specification Question: to which elections does DTV apply? A dilemma arises for some supporters of DTV—in this paper, I focus on Julia Maskivker’s work—because either answer is prob…
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Which Elections? A Dilemma for Proponents of the Duty to Vote
Proponents of the duty to vote (DTV) argue that in normal circumstances, citizens have the moral duty to vote in political elections. Discussions about DTV analyze what the duty is, who has this duty, when they have it, and why they have it. Missing are answers to the Specification Question: to which elections does DTV apply? A dilemma arises for some supporters of DTV—in this paper, I focus on Julia Maskivker’s work—because either answer is prob…
The Luckiest of All Possible Beings: Divine Perfections and Constitutive Luck
Many theists conceive of God as a perfect being, i.e., as that than which none greater is metaphysically possible. On this grand view of God, it seems plausible to think that such a supreme and maximally great being would not be subject to luck of any sort. Given the divine perfections, God is completely insulated from luck. However, I argue that the opposite is true: precisely because God is perfect, he is subject to a kind of luck called consti…
Molinism's kryptonite: Counterfactuals and circumstantial luck
According to Molinism, logically prior to his creative decree, God knows via middle knowledge the truth value of the counterfactuals or conditionals of creaturely freedom (CFs) and thus what any possible person would do in any given circumstance. Critics of Molinism have pointed out that the Molinist God gets lucky that the CFs allow him to actualize either a world of his liking or even a good-enough world at all. In this paper, I advance and str…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Luck (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Circumstantial evidence (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Counterfactual conditional (1 works) · Counterfactual thinking (1 works)