Capturing Christianity Podcast CC155: The Grounding Objection to Molinism - Dr. Kirk MacGregor & Dr. Alex Malpass
Sep 3, 2021
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Molinism and Middle Knowledge
- Molinism posits God's middle knowledge, where God knows what free creatures would do in any situation.
- This middle knowledge sits logically between God's natural knowledge and free knowledge.
Contemporary Molinism Discussions
- There are two contemporary settings when discussing Molinism: philosophy of religion and logic.
- Alex Malpass suggests the logical discussion traces back to a 1976 paper by a philosopher at Notre Dame.
Counterfactuals
- Counterfactuals are subjunctive conditionals with false antecedents, crucial for understanding science and expressing lawlike relations.
- Molinist counterfactuals propose a 'middle knowledge' modality between necessity and possibility.