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2``Freedom and Foreknowledge"Faith and Philosophy 17 (2): 212-224. 2000.In her book, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge, Linda Zagzebski suggests that among the strongest ways of supporting the thesis that libertarian free will is incompatible with divine foreknowledge is what she refers to as the Accidental Necessity argument. Zagzebski contends, however, that at least three satisfactory responses to that argument are available.I argue that two of the proposed solutions are open to strong objections, and that the third, although it may very well handle the sp…Read more
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3CausationIn Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew & Ross P. Cameron (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Routledge. 2009.This volume presents a selection of the most influential recent discussions of the crucial metaphysical questions: what is it for one event to cause another? The subject of causation bears on many topics, such as time, explanation, mental states, the laws of nature, and the philosphy of science.
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37Review of Bas C. Van Fraassen: Laws and symmetry (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (2): 280-283. 1995.
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87The Nature of Causation: A Singularist AccountCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (sup1): 271-322. 1990.Is a singularist conception of causation coherent? That is to say, is it possible for two events to be causally related, without that relationship being an instance of some causal law, either basic or derived, and either probabilistic or non-probabilistic? Since the time of Hume, the overwhelmingly dominant philosophical view has been that such a conception of causation is not coherent.
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59Laws of Nature (review)Philosophical Review 106 (1): 119. 1997.In this book, John Carroll argues for the following two anti-reductionist theses
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178Causation: Reductionism versus realismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (n/a): 215-236. 1990.
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