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

So Why Bother?Ideally one could argue that this installment should have come in toward the start of this entire rave. In my defense, I can only say that when I began this rave I really hadn't thought to include a number…
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 Fourteenth

Counterparts, Providence, and Recalcitrance Allow me to recap the last blog. Middle Knowledge faces an ontological difficulty; it cannot stand on its own but must be seen as a special case of either Natural or Free Kn…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Thirteenth

A Coin Toss Imagine the toss of a fair coin. Now imagine one hundred such tosses and again a thousand. In one hundred fair tosses, one would expect about fifty to come up heads and fifty tails, with one thousand one w…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Twelfth

Excursus on Free WillI have been trying to formulate my thoughts in an on and off manner, but yesterday our Senior Warden brought up the topic. It is a thing he is wont to do, no matter how tangential it seems to the ori…
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…