PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

322 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON The Principle of Alternative Possibilities The libertarian typically embraces the Prin ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 323 The argument then goes as follows: in Case 1, John is responsible for having chosen to stay and study, ...

324 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON A at time T and in circumstance C, and she knows that, at T and in C, doing A is suffi ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 325 Case 3: Mary sits reflecting as to whether to send a bitter letter to her aunt, who has angered her gr ...

326 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON one thinks of an agent as the cause of her choices. In Case 3, as stated, no matter wh ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 327 of the actor at all. Whether a person acts, and if so in what matter, is rendered in fact inevitable. ...

328 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON If, regarding performing action A at time T, Jane has categorical freedom of the sort ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 329 (A) Performing infinite (or an endless) number of instantaneous and simultaneous (or nearly instantane ...

330 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON sending the letter, Mary is also (in accord with (PA*)) praiseworthy for not sending i ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 331 the argument is not complete until we have considered them. We can begin this process by asking: if de ...

332 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Jon intentionally smiled and his intention to smile is an internal conscious state. Jo ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 333 Monotheistic determinism Suppose that determinism is true and that God exists.^26 If determinism is tr ...

334 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Ann using her microchip then Mary no longer is responsible for what Mary thinks or doe ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 335 A parenthetical cross-cultural suggestion In this chapter, we have considered a dispute between a mono ...

336 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Comments on the argument First, note that God knows that P entails P is true; but God ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 337 Sally’s doing B tomorrow. An omniscient being will have no need to make such inferences in order to kn ...

338 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON 1a It is now true that (i) either (ii) the next President of the US will be a former C ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 339 God as considered above. If God creates a world in which the initial conditions come from God’s hand a ...

340 INTRODUCTION Molina, L. (1988) On Divine Foreknowledge, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, trans. Alfred Fredoso. The sta ...

CHAPTER 15 Faith and reason Faith Knowledge Scientism Propositions The epistemic status of religious belief Robust foundationali ...