Free will as a gift from God: A new compatibilism

Philosophical Studies 92 (3):257-281 (1998)
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Abstract

I argue that God could give us the robust power to do other than we do in a deterministic universe.

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An Essay on Free Will.Peter van Inwagen - 1983 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The Nature of Necessity.Alvin Plantinga - 1974 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
What is a Law of Nature?David Malet Armstrong - 1983 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Edited by Sydney Shoemaker.

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