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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460214803321

Titolo

Freedom, fatalism, and foreknowledge [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Oxford University Press, c2015

ISBN

0-19-994239-0

0-19-027333-X

0-19-994240-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FischerJohn Martin <1952->

ToddPatrick <1983->

Disciplina

149/.8

Soggetti

Free will and determinism

Fate and fatalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we would do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the specter of ""fatalism"". This book collects sixteen previously published articles on fatalism, truths about the future, and the relationship between divine foreknowledge and human freedom, and includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Many of the pieces collected here build bridges between discussions