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Our Fate - Essays on God and Free Will (Hardcover)
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Our Fate - Essays on God and Free Will (Hardcover)
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Our Fate is a collection of John Martin Fischer's previously
published articles on the relationship between God's foreknowledge
and human freedom. The book contains a new introductory essay that
places all of the chapters in the book into a cohesive framework.
The introductory essay also provides some new views about the
issues treated in the book, including a bold and original account
of God's foreknowledge of free actions in a causally
indeterministic world. The focus of the book is a powerful
traditional argument for the incompatibility of God's foreknowledge
and human freedom to do otherwise. Fischer presents this argument
(in various forms) and defends it against some of the most salient
criticisms, especially Ockhamism. The incompatibilist's argument is
driven by the fixity of the past, and, in particular, the fixity of
God's prior beliefs about our current behavior. The author gives
special attention to Ockhamism, which contends that God's prior
beliefs are not "over-and-done-with" in the past, and are thus not
subject to the intuitive idea of the fixity of the past. In the
end, Fischer defends the argument for the incompatibility of God's
foreknowledge and human freedom to do otherwise, but he further
argues that this incompatibility need not entail the
incompatibility of God's foreknowledge and human moral
responsibility. Thus, through this collection of essays, Fischer
develops a "semicompatibilist" view - the belief that God's
foreknowledge is entirely compatible with human moral
responsibility, even if God's foreknowledge rules out freedom to do
otherwise.
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