Abstract
Molinism is an attempt to do equal justice to divine foreknowledge and hu- man freedom. For Molinists, human freedom fits in this universe for the future is open or unsettled. However, God's middle knowledge — God's contingent knowledge of what agents would freely do in this or that circumstance — underwrites God's omni- science in the midst of this openness. In this paper I rehearse Nuel Belnap and Mitchell Green's argument in Indeterminism and the Thin Red Line against the reality of a distinguished single future in the context of branching time (2), and show that it ap- plies applies equally against Molinism + branching time. In the process, we show how contemporary work in the logic of temporal notions in the context of branching time (specifically, Prior-Thomason semantics) can illuminate discussions in the metaphysics of freedom and divine knowledge. 3 pictures »
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