April 25, 2019
Leibnizian Supercomprehension
In a recent paper, Juan Garcia has argued that Leibniz is, in an important sense, "a friend of Molinism."1 For those who are familiar with contemporary versions of Molinism (e.g., Flint), this suggestion is rather surprising, since Leibniz is clearly a theological determinist: he holds that God chooses every detail of the actual world. Further, a key feature of Molinism (particularly as it is understood in recent analytic philosophy) is the idea that God's options for creation are limited by contingent but prevolitional counterfactuals of creaturely freedom. The contrary assumption, that God could have actualized any possible world, was dubbed...
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Topic(s):
Alvin Plantinga
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Antoine Arnauld
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Conditionals
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Divine Attributes
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Free Will
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G. W. Leibniz
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Historical Thinkers
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Metaphysics
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Molinism
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Language
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Philosophy of Mind
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Providence and Sovereignty
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Thomas P. Flint
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February 14, 2019
Molinism and the Logic of Subjunctive Conditionals
The following is a plausible principle of the logic of subjunctive conditionals: ◊(p□→q), ◊p ⊨ ◊q This is to say that if a subjunctive conditional is possible true, and its antecedent is possibly true, then its consequent is also possibly true. This principle is validated by most accounts of subjunctive conditionals, including those that allow for non-trivial counterpossibles. If Molinism is true, then this principle is very likely false. According to Molinism (as I use the term here), God exists necessarily and essentially possesses the attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, moral perfection, etc. God possesses two types of knowledge logically prior...
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Topic(s):
Alvin Plantinga
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Conditionals
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Divine Attributes
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Molinism
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Language
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Providence and Sovereignty
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Thomas P. Flint
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Thomas V. Morris
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November 21, 2015
"Counteressential Conditionals" in Thought
My paper "Counteressential Conditionals" has just been accepted (conditional on further revisions) by Thought. This is a revised and expanded version of a paper that I will be presenting at the Central APA in Chicago on March 3. The journal's self-archiving policy does not permit me to post the final version, so you'll have to wait on that, but the short version that will be presented at the APA is available here. This is a more or less straight metaphysics paper (my first!), but it fits in with my work in philosophy of religion/philosophical theology. These kind of conditionals play...
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