Special issue · 2017
Vol. 4, Sp. Iss. 2 Pages 1-101
10 articles · pp. 1-101 · All issues →
Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"Fischer and Fate
Mark Bernstein
“In philosophy it is can in particular that we seem so often to recover , just as we had thought some problem settled, grinning residually up at us like a frog at the bottom of the beer mug.” Ifs and Cans, J.L. Austin
27 Feb 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.27.37- Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Bootstrapping Divine Foreknowledge? Comments on Fischer
Alan R. Rhoda
John Martin Fischer’s work has long been at the forefront of discussions on divine foreknowledge and human freedom. I have a great deal of respect for his work in this area and have learned much from him, so it’s an honor to have been invited to co…
6 Mar 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.72.78 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
John Martin Fischer on the Puzzle of Theological Fatalism
David P. Hunt
The last fifty years have seen a remarkable resurgence of interest among philosophers in the ancient problem of theological fatalism: how divine foreknowledge can be compatible with human freedom. No one has contributed more to the contemporary debate ove…
26 Feb 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.15.26 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Anselm versus Fischer on Solving the Dilemma of Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge
Katherin Rogers
If God knows what you will choose tomorrow, you cannot possibly choose otherwise than as God knows you will choose. How, then, can you choose freely? John Martin Fischer, in his chapter, “Engaging with Pike: God, Freedom,and Time” (with Patrick Tod…
27 Feb 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.38.46 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Replies by John Martin Fischer
John Martin Fischer
I am very grateful for the extremely thoughtful and generous essay by Meghan Griffith. She raises various important issues, which are worth thinking seriously about, but I want to focus on what I take to be her main point. Griffith agrees with me that it is pl…
6 Mar 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.79.101 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
In Defence of Open Theism
Richard Swinburne
In 1965 Nelson Pike presented his very clear version of an ancient argument purporting to show that a temporal God (that is, one who exists at all moments of time), could not have infallible knowledge of any future causally undetermined contingent event, and s…
6 Mar 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.56.62 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Defending Compatibilism
Bruce R. Reichenbach
It is a truism that where one starts from and the direction one goes determines where one ends up. This is no less true in philosophy than elsewhere, and certainly no less true in matters dealing with the relationship between God’s foreknowledge and…
6 Mar 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.63.71 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Endurantism, Fixity, and Fatalism
Michael Almeida
Nelson Pike is often credited with offering the most compelling formulation of an ancient argument against human freedom.1 According to Pike, God’s foreknowledge that we will perform some action is inconsistent with our freedom to do otherwise. If freedo…
6 Mar 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.47.55 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Precis Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016)
John Martin Fischer
In Our FateI present a family of arguments for the incompatibility of God’s foreknowledge and human freedom to do otherwise. The arguments are fueled by the intuitive idea of the fixity of the past. I distinguish different versions of the argument, and I…
26 Feb 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.1.3 - Special Issue: Author Meets Critics: John Martin Fischer's "Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will"
Some Speculations about Semicompatibilism
Meghan Griffith
At the very outset of his excellent Our Fate, John Martin Fischer suggests that arguments for the incompatibility of freedom to do otherwise and divine foreknowledge “are in important ways parallel to a more recent (“Modern”) argument for the…
26 Feb 2018DOI 10.17582/journal.src/2017/4.2.4.14