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• catalog contributor b2854886.
• catalog created "1991.".
• catalog date "1991".
• catalog date "1991.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
• catalog description "Changing the past vs. changing the future -- Causing the future vs. causing the past -- VI. Backward causation -- part I: The alleged logical impossibility of retro-causation -- Dummett's defense of backward causation -- The logical objection to backward causation -- Antony Flew -- Michael Scriven -- Richard Gale -- Richard Swinburne -- Assessment of the logical objection -- Two words of caution -- Assessment -- Logical and metaphysical modality -- Part II: Purported instances of retro-causation -- Neural physiology -- Particle pair creation/annihilation -- Classical electrodynamics -- Tachyons -- Superluminal particles and backward causation -- The reinterpretation principle -- The logically pernicious self-inhibitor -- A perspectival special theory of relativity -- Precognition -- Experimental evidence -- Retro-causal explanation -- Difficulties in retro-causal explanation -- Time travel -- A word of caution -- The possibility of time travel -- Stock objections to time travel -- ".
• catalog description "I. Theological fatalism -- A.N. Prior -- Nelson Pike -- II. Reduction of theological to logical fatalism -- III. Logical fatalism -- Richard Taylor -- Taylor's response to his critics -- IV. Suggested escapes from fatalism -- Denial of the principle of bivalence or the law of excluded middle -- Status of the principle of bivalence -- Grounds for denying bivalence of future contingent propositions -- Grounds for affirming bivalence of future contingent propositions -- Bivalence of all propositions -- Falsity of all future contingent propositions -- Logical form of future contingent propositions -- Unidentifiability of future individuals -- Timelessness of truth -- Tensed vs. tenseless truth-bearers -- Omnitemporal vs. atemporal truth -- Conclusion -- V. "Within one's power" -- Taylor on "within one's power" -- Necessitas consequentiae and personal power -- Conditions and consequences -- Fatalism about the past vs. fatalism about the future -- ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-353) and index.".
• catalog description "The logically pernicious self-inhibitor -- Circular causation -- Part III: The metaphysical impossibility of retro-causation -- The A-theory and backward causation -- Superiority of the A-theory -- Application to purported instances of backward causation -- Conclusion".
• catalog description "VII. "Within one's power" once more -- Power and counterfactual openness -- Failure of fatalism -- Conclusion -- VIII. Transition to theological fatalism -- Prior -- Pike -- Conclusion -- IX. Temporal necessity -- Contemporary debate from Pike to Plantinga -- John Turk Saunders vs. Nelson Pike -- Marilyn Adams -- John Fischer -- Alfred J. Freddoso -- Alvin Plantinga -- Assessment of the debate -- Toward understanding temporal necessity -- Backward causation and intuitions of the past's necessity -- Fatalism and ability -- Conclusion -- X. Newcomb's paradox -- The puzzle conditions -- Theological implications -- Nozick's dilemma -- Divine foreknowledge and the one-box strategy -- Objections to the one-box strategy -- Backward causation -- Backtracking counterfactuals -- Newcomb's paradox and freedom -- Conclusion -- XI. Foreknowledge and freedom of God -- Foreknowledge and human deliberation -- Foreknowledge and divine deliberation -- Conclusion -- XII. The basis of divine foreknowledge -- God's ability to know future contingents -- Knowledge vs. true belief -- Conclusion -- XIII. Middle knowledge -- The doctrine of middle knowledge -- Natural, middle, and free knowledge -- Theological ramifications -- Grounds for affirming middle knowledge -- Objections to middle knowledge -- Middle knowledge and passivity in God -- Middle knowledge and divine freedom -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Is the special theory of relativity fatalistic?".
• catalog extent "xiii, 360 p. :".
• catalog identifier "9004092501 (cloth)".
• catalog isPartOf "Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 19".
• catalog issued "1991".
• catalog issued "1991.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,".
• catalog subject "212/.7 20".
• catalog subject "BT131 .C69 1991".
• catalog subject "Free will and determinism.".
• catalog subject "Future contingents (Logic)".
• catalog subject "God (Christianity) Omniscience.".
• catalog subject "God Omniscience.".
• catalog subject "Theism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Changing the past vs. changing the future -- Causing the future vs. causing the past -- VI. Backward causation -- part I: The alleged logical impossibility of retro-causation -- Dummett's defense of backward causation -- The logical objection to backward causation -- Antony Flew -- Michael Scriven -- Richard Gale -- Richard Swinburne -- Assessment of the logical objection -- Two words of caution -- Assessment -- Logical and metaphysical modality -- Part II: Purported instances of retro-causation -- Neural physiology -- Particle pair creation/annihilation -- Classical electrodynamics -- Tachyons -- Superluminal particles and backward causation -- The reinterpretation principle -- The logically pernicious self-inhibitor -- A perspectival special theory of relativity -- Precognition -- Experimental evidence -- Retro-causal explanation -- Difficulties in retro-causal explanation -- Time travel -- A word of caution -- The possibility of time travel -- Stock objections to time travel -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Theological fatalism -- A.N. Prior -- Nelson Pike -- II. Reduction of theological to logical fatalism -- III. Logical fatalism -- Richard Taylor -- Taylor's response to his critics -- IV. Suggested escapes from fatalism -- Denial of the principle of bivalence or the law of excluded middle -- Status of the principle of bivalence -- Grounds for denying bivalence of future contingent propositions -- Grounds for affirming bivalence of future contingent propositions -- Bivalence of all propositions -- Falsity of all future contingent propositions -- Logical form of future contingent propositions -- Unidentifiability of future individuals -- Timelessness of truth -- Tensed vs. tenseless truth-bearers -- Omnitemporal vs. atemporal truth -- Conclusion -- V. "Within one's power" -- Taylor on "within one's power" -- Necessitas consequentiae and personal power -- Conditions and consequences -- Fatalism about the past vs. fatalism about the future -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "The logically pernicious self-inhibitor -- Circular causation -- Part III: The metaphysical impossibility of retro-causation -- The A-theory and backward causation -- Superiority of the A-theory -- Application to purported instances of backward causation -- Conclusion".
• catalog tableOfContents "VII. "Within one's power" once more -- Power and counterfactual openness -- Failure of fatalism -- Conclusion -- VIII. Transition to theological fatalism -- Prior -- Pike -- Conclusion -- IX. Temporal necessity -- Contemporary debate from Pike to Plantinga -- John Turk Saunders vs. Nelson Pike -- Marilyn Adams -- John Fischer -- Alfred J. Freddoso -- Alvin Plantinga -- Assessment of the debate -- Toward understanding temporal necessity -- Backward causation and intuitions of the past's necessity -- Fatalism and ability -- Conclusion -- X. Newcomb's paradox -- The puzzle conditions -- Theological implications -- Nozick's dilemma -- Divine foreknowledge and the one-box strategy -- Objections to the one-box strategy -- Backward causation -- Backtracking counterfactuals -- Newcomb's paradox and freedom -- Conclusion -- XI. Foreknowledge and freedom of God -- Foreknowledge and human deliberation -- Foreknowledge and divine deliberation -- Conclusion -- XII. The basis of divine foreknowledge -- God's ability to know future contingents -- Knowledge vs. true belief -- Conclusion -- XIII. Middle knowledge -- The doctrine of middle knowledge -- Natural, middle, and free knowledge -- Theological ramifications -- Grounds for affirming middle knowledge -- Objections to middle knowledge -- Middle knowledge and passivity in God -- Middle knowledge and divine freedom -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Is the special theory of relativity fatalistic?".
• catalog title "Divine foreknowledge and human freedom : the coherence of theism : omniscience / by William Lane Craig.".
• catalog type "text".