Determinism and Omniscience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9688339 |
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| Authors | Tobias Chapman |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 366-373 |
| Publication date | 1970-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300028985 |
| OpenAlex | W2058388187 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Many philosophers and theologians have thought that God's omniscience entails the truth of strict determinism. Many others, including most of the Scholastics, held that arguments for this view confused necessitas consequential and necessitas consequentis . I think the Scholastics were right. What I am primarily concerned to argue in this paper is that nonetheless great difficulties remain concerning the relation between God's knowledge and the fact that there are contingent events
Determinism · Epistemology · Free will · Omniscience · Relation (database) · Computer Science · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Highly cited | No |
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