A Counterexample to Plantinga’s Free Will Defense

Faith and Philosophy 29 (4):400-415 (2012)
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Abstract

Plantinga’s Free Will Defense is an argument that, possibly, God cannot actualize a world containing significant creaturely free will and no wrongdoings. I will argue that if standard Molinism is true, there is a pair of worlds w1 and w2 each of which contains a significantly free creature who never chooses wrongly, and that are such that, necessarily, at least one of these worlds is a world that God can actualize.

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Alexander R. Pruss
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