The Free Will Show

In this episode, we discuss a popular response to Frankfurt cases called the "flicker of freedom" strategy. Our guest is Bradford Stockdale.

Brad's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/bradford-stockdale

Brad's paper, "Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Acting on One's Own": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-020-09353-z


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In this episode, we talk with Greg Welty about what compatibilists about freedom and determinism could contribute to the debate about freedom and foreknowledge.

Greg's website: http://www.gregwelty.com/

Greg's book, Why Is There Evil in the World (And So Much Of It)?: https://www.christianfocus.com/products/2741/why-is-there-evil-in

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This is our second of two episodes on open theism. We talk with Patrick Todd about two versions of the view and why he prefers the open future open theist view.

Patrick's website: http://www.patricktodd.co/

Patrick's book, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-open-future-9780192897916?cc=us&lang=en&

Collection of essays co-edited and co-introduced by Patrick (with John Martin Fischer), Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-fatalism-and-foreknowledge-9780199942411?q=patrick%20todd&lang=en&cc=us

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This is our first of two episodes on open theism, the view that we have free will and that it is incompatible with divine foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with William Hasker about reasons to be an open theist and some potential challenges.

Bill's website: https://www.huntington.edu/meet-the-faculty/william-hasker

Influential book on open theism, to which Bill is a contributor, The Openness of God: https://www.ivpress.com/the-openness-of-god

Bill's book, God, Time and Knowledge: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801485459/god-time-and-knowledge/#bookTabs=1

Bill's book, Providence, Evil and the Openness of God: https://www.routledge.com/Providence-Evil-and-the-Openness-of-God/Hasker/p/book/9780415651103

Symposium on Bill's work: https://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rf/issue/view/1215


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In this episode, we talk with David Hunt about the source-libertarian response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge, according to which, although causal determinism would rule out moral responsibility, alternative possibilities are not required.

David's website: https://www.whittier.edu/academics/philosophy/david-hunt

David's paper, "On Augustine's Way Out": https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=faithphil_1999_0016_0001_0003_0026&pdfname=faithphil_1999_0016_0001_0003_0026.pdf&file_type=pdf

David's coauthored entry (with Linda Zagzebski) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Foreknowledge and Free Will": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/

David's interviews on Closer to Truth: https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/david-hunt/profile


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This episode is  the second in a two-part series on the dependence response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with Philip Swenson about his version of the dependence response, whether Molinists can accept the response, and more.

Philip's website: https://sites.google.com/site/philipjswenson/home

Philip's paper, "Ability, Foreknowledge, and Explanatory Dependence": https://philpapers.org/archive/SWEAFA.pdf

Another interview with Philip on his dilemma for Molinism:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0fxXY3hjE

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This episode is the first in a two-part series on the dependence response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. In this episode, we talk with Trenton Merricks about truth, dependence, foreknowledge, and freedom.

Trenton's website: https://www.trentonmerricks.com/

Trenton's paper, "Truth and Freedom": https://www.trentonmerricks.com/public/publications/Truth-and-Freedom.pdf

Trenton's paper, "Foreknowledge and Freedom": https://www.trentonmerricks.com/public/publications/Merricks-F-and-F-PR.pdf

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In this episode, we talk with William Lane Craig about Molinism, a view about the compatibility of divine providence and human free will that is sometimes brought up in response to the challenge of divine foreknowledge.

Bill's website: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/

Bill's book, The Only Wise God: https://wipfandstock.com/9781579103163/the-only-wise-god/

Bill's book, Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom:
https://brill.com/view/title/2069?language=en

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In this episode, we talk with Amy Seymour about Ockhamist solution to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge. Along the way, we discuss various related issues in the philosophy of time.

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In this episode, we talk with Katherin Rogers about the Boethian response to the problem of freedom and foreknowledge, according to which God’s timelessness helps to solve the problem.

Kate's website: https://www.udel.edu/faculty-staff/experts/katherin-rogers/

Kate's recent book, The Experimental Approach to Free Will: https://www.routledge.com/The-Experimental-Approach-to-Free-Will-Freedom-in-the-Laboratory/Rogers/p/book/9781032194028

Kate's book, Freedom and Self Creation: Anselmian Libertarianism: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/freedom-and-self-creation-9780198743972?cc=us&lang=en&

Kate's book, Anselm on Freedom: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anselm-on-freedom-9780199231676?cc=us&lang=en&


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