Alex Arnold

This chapter uses some resources of the knowledge-first approach in epistemology (KFAE), championed by Timothy Williamson and characterized by the idea that epistemology should be done by beginning with the concept of knowledge rather than by beginning with the idea that justification or good evidence or even belief itself is more basic to the subdiscipline, to advance a novel argument in defense of the Ockhamist solution to the perennial problem of the compatibility of divine foreknowledge and creaturely freedom. As an added bonus, it explains how KFAE also provides the Ockhamist with materials to defuse two of John Martin Fischer’s objections against Ockhamism.