Ockhamists and Molinists in Search of a Way Out
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20313359 |
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| Authors | Mark D Linville (St. Olaf College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 501-515 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034412500023908 |
| OpenAlex | W2149895936 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
If libertarianism is true, then there is a sense in which agents have it within their power to bring it about that some world is actual. Against recent arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom, I offer an account of power over the past which takes this implication of libertarianism into consideration. I argue that the resulting account is available to Ockhamists and that it is immune to recent criticisms of the notion of counterfactual power over the past. But I contend that it is not an option for Molinists and that this fact leaves that position vulnerable to incompatibilist arguments
Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Economics · Epistemology · Foreknowledge · Law and economics · Libertarianism · Physics · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Free Will and Agency · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Highly cited | No |
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