Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he has held a University of California President's Chair (2006-10). He was President of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (2013-4). He is Project Leader of The Immortality Project (2011-14), sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation. Patrick Todd is a new faculty member (as Chancellor's Fellow) at the University of Edinburgh, where he began in October 2013. Previously he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck and the Munich School of Philosophy. Before that, he completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, in December 2011.

I. Preface ; II. Introduction Patrick Todd and John Martin Fischer ; III. The arguments for fatalism ; Richard Taylor, "Fate" ; Peter Van Inwagen, "Fatalism" ; Trenton Merricks, "Truth and Freedom" ; John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd, "The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks" ; Penelope Mackie, "Fatalism, Incompatibilism, and the Power to Do Otherwise" ; Michael Rea, "Presentism and Fatalism" ; John Perry, "Compatibilist Options" ; IV. The problem of foreknowledge ; Linda Zagzebski, "Omniscience and the Arrow of Time" ; David Widerker, "Troubles With Ockhamism" ; Alicia Finch and Michael Rea, "Presentism and Ockham's Way Out" ; Patrick Todd, "Geachianism" ; David Hunt, "On Augustine's Way Out" ; V. The logic of future contingents ; Charles Hartshorne, "The Meaning of 'Is Going to Be" ; A.N. Prior, "It Was to Be." ; John MacFarlane, "Future Contingents and Relative Truth" ; Sven Rosenkranz, "In Defence of Ockhamism" ; VI. Bibliography (compiled by Patrick Todd) ; Index