Open AccessHow God Knows Counterfactuals of Freedom
Author(s) -
Justin Mooney
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
faith and philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2153-3393
pISSN - 0739-7046
DOI - 10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.2.5
Subject(s) - counterfactual conditional , worry , epistemology , philosophy , contemporary philosophy , counterfactual thinking , psychology , anxiety , psychiatry
One problem for Molinism that critics of the view have pressed, and which Molinists have so far done little to address, is that even if there are true counterfactuals of freedom, it is puzzling how God could possibly know them. I defuse this worry by sketching a plausible model of the mechanics of middle knowledge which draws on William Alston’s direct acquaintance account of divine knowledge.