God’s Divinely Justified Knowledge is Incompatible with Human Free Will

• Authors: John Shook
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A new version of the incompatibilist argument is developed. Knowledge is (at least) justified true belief. If God’s divine knowledge must be justified knowledge, then humans cannot have the “alternative possibilities” type of free will. This incompatibilist argument is immunized against the application of the hard-soft fact distinction. If divine knowledge is justified, then the only kind of facts that God can know are hard facts, permitting this incompatibilist argument to succeed.

Keywords

EN

free will; determinism; theory of knowledge; belief; God; philosophy of religion

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 141-159

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

John Shook

• University at Buffalo

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10.5840/forphil201015122

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