Free Will and Theism Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns

by Timpe, Kevin; Speak, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780198743958
• ISBN10: 0198743955
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-07-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Kevin Timpe, Northwest Nazarene University,Daniel Speak, Loyola Marymount University

Kevin Timpe is professor of philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, and a former Templeton Research Fellow at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. His research is focused on the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility, virtue ethics, philosophy of disability, and issues in the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives, 2nd edn (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Free Will in Philosophical Theology (Bloomsbury, 2013). He has edited a number of volumes, including Virtues and Their Vices (OUP, 2014) and Arguing about Religion (Routledge, 2009). He is currently working (with Meghan Griffith and Neil Levy) on The Routledge Companion to Free Will.


Daniel Speak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He has recently served as a Visiting Research Fellow at Biola University's Center for Christian Thought and as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University. He thinks and writes principally about the metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology of free will and about related issues in the philosophy of religion. His articles have appeared in The Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, among others.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Daniel Speak and Kevin Timpe
1. The runeburg problem: theism, libertarianism, and motivated reasoning, Manuel R. Vargas
2. Libertarianism and the problem of flip-flopping, John Martin Fischer
3. The cost of freedom, Laura W. Ekstrom
4. One hell of a problem for christian compatibilists, Jerry L. Walls
5. Relative responsibility and theism, Tamler Sommers
6. Libertarianism and theological determinism, Derk Pereboom
7. Against theological determinism, Timothy O'Connor
8. Theism has no implications for the debate between libertarianism and compatibilism, T. J. Mawson
9. Libertarianism as a naturalistic position, Helen Steward
10. Agent causation and theism, Meghan Griffith
11. Bringing about perfect worlds, Michael J. Almeida
12. Divine universal causality and libertarian freedom, W. Matthews Grant
13. Divine conservation and creaturely freedom, Neal Judisch
14. Divine agency and acting for reasons, Rebekah L. H. Rice
15. God's freedom, God's character, Kevin Timpe
16. Immutable freedom, Jesse Couenhoven