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Abstract
This article addresses the problem of divine foreknowledge and human freedom by developing a modi?ed version of Boethius’ solution to the problem–one that is meant to cohere with a dynamic theory of time and a conception of God as temporal. I begin the article by discussing the traditional Boethian solution, and a defence of it due to Kretzmann and Stump. After canvassing a few of the objections to this view, I then go on to o?er my own modi?ed Boethian solution, according to which temporal reality is fundamentally dynamic, but truth is not. My claim is that there are eternally existing, tenseless propositions, with determinate truth values, but that these are made true by events that come into existence, and are not themselves eternal.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 45-64 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Religious Studies |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 15 May 2012 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2013 |
Keywords
- divine eternity
- Metaphysics
- Time
- Fatalism
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Activities
Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Padua
Joseph Diekemper (Speaker)
Sep 2010
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
TCD Philosophy Department Colloquium
Joseph Diekemper (Speaker)
Dec 2009
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
Oxford Templeton Fellowship
Diekemper, Joseph (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Cite this
Diekemper, J. (2013). Eternity, knowledge, and freedom. Religious Studies, 49(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412512000170