![]() Almost all discussions of this issue by analytic philosophers have been a series of responses to Pike and this collection of John Martin Fischer’s previously published essays is a collection of such responses. ![]() ![]() Given the assumption that human free actions are causally underdetermined, this entails that such a God cannot at any time have infallible knowledge of which future actions humans will do freely. In 1965 Nelson Pike presented his very clear version of an ancient argument purporting to show that a temporal God (that is, one who exists at all moments of time), could not have infallible knowledge of any future causally undetermined contingent event, and so – if there are any such events - could not be essentially omniscient, in the sense of having infallible knowledge of all true propositions. ![]()
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