Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge

by Fischer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199942412
• ISBN13: 9780199942411
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"