The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez

PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE. ARISTOTLE
THE INTERPRETIVE CONTROVERSY
PRELIMINARY NOTE ON ARISTOTLE'S MODAL TERMS
STRUCTURE OF CHAPTER NINE
I. Introduction
II. Development of Fatalistic Difficulties
A. Threat of Fatalism
B. Absurdity of Fatalism
III. Resolution of Fatalistic Difficulties
A. Necessity and Conditional Necessity
B. Predicating Necessity Collectively and Distributively
C. Application to Future Contingent Singular Propositions
SUMMARY
CHAPTER TWO. AUGUSTINE
TURN TO THEOLOGICAL FATALISM
AUGUSTINE'S CONTEXT OF THEODICY
AUGUSTINE'S PROBLEM OF THEOLOGICAL FATALISM
AUGUSTINE'S SOLUTION
SUMMARY
FOREKNOWLEDGE AND ETERNITY
CHAPTER THREE. BOETHIUS
PROBLEM OF THEOLOGICAL FATALISM
BOETHIUS's SOLUTION
SUMMARY
CHAPTER FOUR. THOMAS AQUINAS
GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF NON-EXISTENTS
GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF FUTURE CONTINGENTS
Objections to God's Foreknowledge
Thomas's Position on God's Foreknowledge
Answers to Objections
Summary
THOMAS'S IMPLIED THEORY OF TIME
GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THINGS THROUGH HIS ESSENCE
GOD'S KNOWLEDGE AS THE CAUSE OF THINGS
CHAPTER FIVE. JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
SCOTUS'S POSITION ON GOD'S KNOWLEDGE
Rejection of Previous Opinions
Scotus's Own View
OBJECTIONS AND REPLIES
Concerning God's Determinate Know
Concerning God's Certain and Infallible Knowledge
Concerning the Necessity of God's Knowledge
Concerning the Compatibility of God's Knowledge with Contingency
SUMMARY
CHAPTER SIX. WILLIAM OCKHAM
GOD'S DETERMINATE KNOWLEDGE OF FUTURE CONTINGENTS
Objections
Ockham's Position on the Truth Value of Future Contingent Propositions
Replies to Objections
GOD'S CERTAIN AND INFALLIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF FUTURE CONTINGENTS
Objections
Replies to Objections
GOD'S NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE OF FUTURE CONTINGENTS
Arguments for Necessity
Refutation of Arguments
SUMMARY
CHAPTER SEVEN. LUIS MOLINA
DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND FUTURE CONTINGENTS
Infallible Knowledge of Future Contingents
Reconciliation of Foreknowledge and Contingency
PRESCIENCE, PROVIDENCE, AND PREDESTINATION
Prescience
Providence
Predestination
SUMMARY
CHAPTER EIGHT. FRANCISCO SUAREZ
GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF ACTUALLY FUTURE CONTINGENTS
The Basis of God's Foreknowledge of Future Contingents
Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingency
Summary
GOD'S KNOWLEDGE OF CONDITIONALLY FUTURE CONTINGENTS
Defense of Divine Middle Knowledge
The Basis of God's Middle Knowledge
Summary
NOTES TO CHAPTER ONE
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX