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"In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False, Patrick Todd launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future, one according to which all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. Todd argues that this…

This book launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. Patrick Todd argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false. In The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False, Patrick Todd launches …

"We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we could do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the…

This book collects sixteen previously published articles on fatalism, truths about the future, and the relationship between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. It includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Many of the pieces collected here build bridges betw…