Published: 2025-12-31

Why Can’t God Know Something But Not Everything?

Anna Maria Karczewska , Agnieszka Karczewska
Studia Philosophiae Christianae
Section: Papers
https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2025.61.A.17

Abstract

The paper is concerned with John Martin Fischer’s Bootstrapping View of God’s foreknowledge, which is intended to reconcile God’s foreknowledge with genuine contingency of the future. We argue that this view has two major faults. Firstly, its main theses are incoherent and lack a proper justification. Secondly, the Bootstrapping View doesn’t address the problem of future contingents it was designed to solve.

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Received: 23/07/2025. Reviewed: 3/10/2025. Accepted: 14/11/2025.

Keywords:

infallibility, the problem of future contingents, bootstrapping view, God’s foreknowledge

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Karczewska, A. M., & Karczewska, A. (2025). Why Can’t God Know Something But Not Everything?. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 61(2), 167–177. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2025.61.A.17

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