International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 79 (3):185-205 (2016)
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Contrary to the commonly held position of Luis de Molina, Thomas Flint and others, I argue that counterfactuals of divine freedom are pre-volitional for God within the Molinist framework. That is, CDFs are not true even partly in virtue of some act of God’s will. As a result, I argue that the Molinist God fails to satisfy an epistemic openness requirement for rational deliberation, and thus she cannot rationally deliberate about which world to actualize.
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| Keywords | Counterfactuals of freedom Deliberation Divine freedom Libertarianism Middle knowledge Molinism |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11153-015-9542-1 |
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