Episode 240: Dr. J vs. a Molinist

Dr. J holds court with Eric Hernandez to discuss all things Molinism … and Taco Bell.

0:04:45 Intro Music

0:05:16 Welcome and Introduction

0:06:13 Submit Your Questions

0:07:03 Introducing Eric Hernandez

0:10:10 What is Molinism?

0:13:58 Counterfactuals

0:15:16 Molina on God’s Knowledge

0:19:23 Simple Foreknowledge vs. Middle Knowledge

0:26:20 Eric Hernandez on Becoming a Molinist

0:27:09 Problems Solved By Molinism

0:28:55 Divine Hiddenness

0:31:05 Molinism and the Unevangelized

0:33:54 Audience Questions Regarding the Grounding of CCF

0:34:45 Views on Omniscience

0:36:02 How Would God Know? And the Grounding Objections

0:39:05 Certainty is Not the Same as Necessity

0:40:38 Another Type of Grounding Objections

0:43:08 Mutually Exclusive Statements

0:47:40 Audience Question Regarding “Would”

0:49:03 Feasible Worlds

0:55:05 Break

0:57:09 Audience Questions Regarding Free Will and Determinism

1:03:01 Audience Question Regarding the Principle of Alternative Possibilities

1:07:34 Back to the Question Regarding Free Will and Determinism

1:15:30 Eric Questions Kurt

1:19:35 Audience Question Regarding Divine Simplicity

1:22:26 Eric Hernandez on the Weaknesses of Molinism

1:29:21 Wrap Up and Looking Ahead