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Episode 31: Dependence, Freedom, and Foreknowledge with Andrew Law

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Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Incompatible

In the first season of our podcast, we interviewed linda eesky about divine foreknowledge and human free will. In this episode Andrew Keen takes us through a version of the argument for the conclusion that foreknowledge and free will are incompatible. We seem to use something like it in our lives - suppose you're at the bus stop one day waiting for the school bus which is going to be late. You can get an oper or call a friend or something, but all these methods are going to take some extra time on your way home. Ye? Ye? It's virtually guaranteed as it is with the bus running as it is today. And so now looking at a bunch of road clos

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