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A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Seventeenth

Getting Some PerspectiveBefore submitting this very brief entry, I'd like to make a book recommendation (occupational hazard of a librarian): On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the Concordia by Luis de Molina, translat…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Sixteenth

O Felix Culpa: A Response Last year, in the pages of journal Faith and Philosophy, (April 2008, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 123-140) Marilyn McCord Adams has leveled a series of criticism on Plantinga's latest answer to the p…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Fifteenth

O Felix Culpa At the risk of repeating a point to oblivion, Middle Knowledge—or at least a view of Middle Knowledge that assumes incompatiblist or libertarian freedom—does not answer the challenge that evil presents. …
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Eleventh

Extending the Metaphor Recapping David Ray's Griffin's objections from the last part of this rave. Given all the evil (and in particular suffering) in this world that can be traced to libertarian freedom, things woul…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Tenth

Is Middle Knowledge Even Relevant? This little rave is a reflection on a bit the first chapter of David Ray Griffin's Evil Revisited (Evil Revisited: Responses and Reconsiderations, State University Press of New York, …
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Eight

William Hasker and Middle Knowledge If omniscience entails that God knows all that is logically possible for a being to know and if it is logically possible to know future contingents, including freely chosen fut…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Seventh

Buying time It has been a while. The start of theschool year and unfinished work that simply had to get done tookprecedent. Strike that, others seem to manage; so chalk that up topoor time-management. I would a…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Sixth

A Preliminary View of the Free WillDefense (FWD)Keeping in mind that the FWD is a justso story, whose aim it is to show that the argument from evil is notconclusive, I should like to sketch out the defense an…
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 6)

In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that while I calling the below the Thomist and Scotist responses to the problem of subjective counterfactuals, it has been many years since I’ve actually read St. Thom…
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 2)

Last time placed a number of bullet points that seem relevant to the question of whether subjective counterfactuals make sense. The first point was, What in the actual world corresponds to a personal essence? Loosely s…