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Temporal Omniscience, Free will, and Their Logic
Taking divine omniscience as including temporal omniscience, which means God exists at all times and knows everything, I point out the fallacies in...
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Time, atemporal existence, and divine temporal consciousness: a bimodalist account for divine consciousness
If God exists atemporally, could God still be temporally conscious? This article aims to clarify a conceptual space for a divine temporal mode of...
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The View from everywhere: temporal self-experience and the Good Life
It is a common thought that our experience of self in time plays a crucial role in living a good human life. This idea is seen both in views that say...
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Realizing impossibilities
It is common in epistemic modal logic to model the epistemic states of agents via box operators in the normal logic S5. However, this approach treats...
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Divine foreknowledge and human freedom: exploring a gap-theoretic account
The recent work of logician Jc Beall marks a paradigm shift within the fields of analytic theology and philosophy of religion. Thanks to Beall’s...
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Bahala Na: Fatalism or an Open Future?
This paper discusses two conceptions of the Filipino expression bahala na. The first implies a fatalistic attitude, while the second implies an... -
The Panpsychist Dimension of Kwame Gyekye’s Theistic Conception of God
Kwame Gyekye’s interpretation of traditional Akan religious thought leads him to the conception of God as a being that possesses the properties of...
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Evaluating the Reliability of an Authoritative Discourse in a Jain Epistemological Eulogy of the 6th c.
This paper explores the coexistence of more apologetic and of more systematic considerations in the Āpta-mīmāṁsā (ĀMī), Investigation on authority ,...
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Mind the Gap
Here we argue that stage two of the Aristotelian proof fails. More specifically, we argue against the inferences to the following divine attributes:... -
Replies to critics
Responding to the critical comments by the symposiasts Julien Dutant, Niccolò Rossi, Martin Smith, Daniel Waxman, and Yiwen Zhan, I further...
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On the incoherence of molinism: incompatibility of middle knowledge with divine immutability
We argue that there is an incompatibility between the two basic principles of Molinism, i.e., God’s middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely...
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God’s Existence and the Problem of Evil in African Philosophy of Religion
Traditional African societies tend to favor a theocentric and anthropocentric conception of the universe, with God at the top of the hierarchy of... -
God’s Existence and the Problem of Evil in African Philosophy of Religion
Traditional African societies tend to favor a theocentric and anthropocentric conception of the universe, with God at the top of the hierarchy of... -
God’s absolute immutability vis-a-vis his real relation with the world
The absolute immutability of God, as it was expounded by many ancient and medieval thinkers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, contends that...
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Avicenna and Anselm on God and Divine Simplicity
This chapter offers an analysis of Avicenna’s and Anselm’s concepts of God as a simple being without a commitment to their views. This analysis is... -
Global Philosophy of Religion and the Perspectives from Southeast Asia
Global Philosophy of Religion is a constructive approach to the philosophy of religion. It aims to incorporate various religious perspectives to... -
Agency and the Successive Structure of Time-Consciousness
I argue for constraining the nomological possibility space of temporal experiences and endorsing the Succession Requirement for agents. The...
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Strategies for stage II of cosmological arguments
The following article will examine three argumentative strategies to address a recent topic of debate in the philosophy of religion known as the “Gap...