Episode 2: Fatalism, Foreknowledge, and Determinism with John Martin Fischer
The Free Will Show
The Second Threat to Free Will Is From Fatalism
The second alleged threat to free will is from divine foreknowledge. The engine that we've been talking about, the fixity of the past intuition, pertains not to some propositions having been true but god's knowing exactly what i will choose and do. And more specifically, god's having believed in the past exactly wat that i would choose and do, exactly what i chose to do, and did so a thousand years ago. It would follow that i can't do anything about a participating in this interview i couldn't have done otherwise.
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