The Free Will Show

Episode 4: Divine Foreknowledge with Linda Zagzebski

Aug 31, 2020

44:49

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Difference Between Infallible Knowing and Just Plain Ordinary Knowing

01:48

The Transfer of Necessity

04:01

The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will

02:34

Introduction

2min

Theological Fatalism

3min

Global Fatalism

4min

The Difference Between Infallible Knowing and Just Plain Ordinary Knowing

2min

The Transfer of Necessity

4min

The Problem of Fatalism - Is There a God Who Knows Infalliblely?

2min

Theological Fatalism

3min

The Parallel Argument Does Not Solve the Problem

2min

Is the Past Necessary or Is It About the Future?

3min

10.

Is God's Past Belief as Much in the Past as Anything Is?

3min

11.

The Solution to the Problem of Logical Fatalism

2min

12.

Theological Fatalism - Is the Molinous Solution True?

4min

13.

Is There a Necessity of the Past?

3min

14.

The Requirement of the Past Might Not Be Necessity

3min

15.

The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will

3min

16.

Is There a Connection Between Time and Necessity?

2min

In this episode, Linda Zagzebski explains the argument from God’s infallible foreknowledge to the conclusion that no one has free will. After discussing several responses to the argument, she then explains why this problem is interesting—whether one is a theist or not.

Linda’s website: https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/linda-zagzebski

Recommended resources:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Foreknowledge and Free Will”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/

Linda's first book, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-dilemma-of-freedom-and-foreknowledge-9780195107630?cc=us&lang=en&#

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