ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange
Abstract
Can I be free to perform an action if God has decided to ensure that
I do not choose that action? I show that Molinists and simple foreknowl-
edge theorists are committed to answering in the affirmative. This is
problematic for their status as theological incompatibilists. I suggest that
strategies for preserving their theological incompatibilism in light of this
result should be based on sourcehood. However, the path is not easy here
either, since Leibniz has shown how theological determinists can o er an
extremely robust form of sourcehood. Proponents of these views must
identify a valuable form of sourcehood their theories allow that Leibniz\u27s
theory doesn\u27t