Metaphysical Compatibilism and the Ontology of Trans-World Personhood: A Neo-Lewisian Argument for the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge (Determinism) and Metaphysical Free Will

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dc.contributor.authorLenart, Bartlomiej Andrzej
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-02T17:12:49Z
dc.date.available2023-08-02T17:12:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-07
dc.description.abstractDavid Lewis’ contemplations regarding divine foreknowledge and free will, along with some of his other more substantial work on modal realism and his counterpart theory can serve as a springboard to a novel solution to the foreknowledge and metaphysical freedom puzzle, namely a proposal that genuine metaphysical freedom is compatible with determinism, which is quite different from the usual compatibilist focus on the compatibility between determinism and moral responsibility. This paper argues that while Lewis opens the doors to such a possibility, in order to fully elucidate a genuinely metaphysical compatibilist account, Lewis’ own counterpart theory must be abandoned in favour of an account of trans-world identity that is theoretically framed by a modified version of Robert Nozick’s closest continuer theory.
dc.identifier.citationLenart, B. A. (2022). Metaphysical Compatibilism and the Ontology of Trans-World Personhood: A Neo-Lewisian Argument for the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge (Determinism) and Metaphysical Free Will. Metaphysica, 23(2), 385–407. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0041
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0041
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/116816
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41658
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMetaphysica: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics ISSN: 1874-6373
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dc.subjectcompatibilism
dc.subjectmetaphysical compatibilism
dc.subjectfree will
dc.subjectdeterminism
dc.subjectdivine foreknowledge
dc.subjecttrans-world identity
dc.subjectmultiverse
dc.subjectmodal realism
dc.subjectcounterpart theory
dc.subjectclosest continuer theory
dc.titleMetaphysical Compatibilism and the Ontology of Trans-World Personhood: A Neo-Lewisian Argument for the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge (Determinism) and Metaphysical Free Will
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