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Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna (2022)

Kaukua, J. (2022). Future contingency and God’s knowledge of particulars in Avicenna. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2088469

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Kaukua, Jari

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Lehti tai sarja: British Journal for the History of Philosophy

ISSN: 0960-8788

eISSN: 1469-3526

Julkaisuvuosi: 2022

Ilmestymispäivä: 28.06.2022

Volyymi: Ahead of print

Kustantaja: Routledge

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2088469

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Avicenna’s discussion of future contingent propositions is sometimes considered to entail metaphysical indeterminism. In this paper, I argue that his logical analysis of future contingent statements is best understood in terms of the epistemic modality of those statements, which has no consequences for modal metaphysics. This interpretation is corroborated by hitherto neglected material concerning the question of God’s knowledge of particulars. In the Taʿlīqāt, Avicenna argues that God knows particulars by knowing their complete causes, and when contrasted with the human knowledge of particulars, this epistemically superior access shows that the contingency of statements about future particulars is not due to the modal properties of real particulars but to the nature of human access to them.

YSO-asiasanat: filosofit; Jumala; islam; tulevaisuus; teologia; arabialainen filosofia; tietoteoria