Philo

Volume 13, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2010

David J. Anderson, Joshua L. Watson
Pages 136-150

The Mystery of Foreknowledge

Many have attempted to respond to arguments for the incompatibility of freedom with divine foreknowledge by claiming that God’s beliefs about the future are explained by what the world is like at that future time. We argue that this response adequately advances the discussion only if the theist is able to articulate a model of foreknowledge that is both clearly possible and compatible with freedom. We investigate various models the theist might articulate and argue that all of these models fail.