A note on theological fatalism1

Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 14 (2):143-147 (2007)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

We contend that a very seductive argument for theological fatalism fails. In the course of our discussion we point out that theological fatalism is incompatible with the existence of a being who is omnipotent, omniscient and infallible. We suggest that ‘possible’ formalized as ‘◊’ is to be understood as ‘can or could have been’ and not simply as ‘can’. The argument we discuss conflates the two. We end by rounding out, hope-fully, some left over corners of serious concern to the theist

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,551

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

On the cannot of infallibility.Alex Blum - 2005 - Sophia 44 (1):125-127.
Some Sketchy Notes on the Reaper Argument.Vladimir Marko - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (3):361-387.
Causation, Interpretation and Omniscience: A Note on Davidson's Epistemology.Vladimír Svoboda & Tim Crane - 2004 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 11 (2):117-127.
Foreknowledge and Free Will.Alex Blum - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19 (1):55-57.
Intentionality and What We Can Learn about It from Searle's Theory of Institutions.Pavla Toráčová - 2012 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 19:83-92.
The Rejection of Fatalism about the Past.Gal Yehezkel - 2016 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 4 (23):525–538.
What we know about numbers and propositions and how we know it.Scott Soames - 2020 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 27 (3):282-301.
Looking for the Lazy Argument Candidates.Vladimir Marko - 2011 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 18 (3 & 4):363-383; 447-474.
Free Will: A consensus gentium Argument.William Hunt - 2024 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 31 (1):22-47.
Alex Orenstein, W. V. Quine. [REVIEW]Marián Zouhar - 2003 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 10 (3):351-355.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-12-30

Downloads
36 (#631,039)

6 months
2 (#1,689,094)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Alex Blum
New York University (PhD)

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

A New System of Modal Logic.G. H. von Wright - 1953 - Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Philosophy 5:59-63.
On the cannot of infallibility.Alex Blum - 2005 - Sophia 44 (1):125-127.

Add more references