Molinism

Ken Perszyk is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Head of the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His primary research interests are in philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He has published articles on a range of areas, including Molinism, the Argument from Evil, the metaphysics of modality, the history of early analytical philosophy and Wittgenstein. He is the author of Nonexistent Objects: Meinong and Contemporary Philosophy (1993).

• Introduction ; 1. The (Non-)Existence of Molinist Counterfactuals ; 2. Whence and Whither the Molinist Debate: A Reply to Hasker ; 3. Truth and Molinism ; 4. Trenton Merricks on Some Anti-Molinist Arguments ; 5. Pro Haskeris Contradictione ; 6. Replies to Hasker and Zimmerman ; 7. Molinist Conditionals ; 8. Tilting at Molinism ; 9. A Precis of 'Yet Another Anti-Molinist Argument' ; 10. Yet Another Failed Anti-Molinist Argument ; 11. An Anti-Molinist Replies ; 12. Molinism and Incarnation ; 13. Putting Molinism In Its Place ; 14. Molinism and the Thin Red Line ; 15. The Free Will Defense ; 16. Theological Determinism and Divine Providence ; 17. An Open Theist Theodicy of Natural Evil ; Bibliography: Recent Work on Molinism

I was ... pleasantly surprised by the quality and originality shown in this volume. It is, by any reasonable standard, a superb collection of papers ... the collection is required reading for anyone working on Molinism in the future and can also be used effectively to gain a perspective on Molinism itself and the debates surrounding it of the last thirty years or so.