<p>Arguments such as the Consequence Argument suggest that causal determinism is incompatible with free will. Philosophers like Leigh Vicens and Peter Furlong have extended this reasoning to theological determinism, arguing that if God’s will determines the world, human freedom is precluded. In response, some compatibilists maintain that natural and theological determinism are fundamentally distinct. This paper defends and develops this compatibilist position. I argue that theological determinism can be reconciled with robust, libertarian-style free will, provided we adopt a substance-causal framework. On this model, agents are understood as fundamental substances with intrinsic causal powers, and divine determinism is itself construed not as an event-causal chain, but as God’s continuous act of creating and sustaining these agential substances.</p>

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Determined freedom: a substance-causal account of theological compatibilism

  • Niloofar Shahinnia,
  • Seyed Hassan Hosseini

摘要

Arguments such as the Consequence Argument suggest that causal determinism is incompatible with free will. Philosophers like Leigh Vicens and Peter Furlong have extended this reasoning to theological determinism, arguing that if God’s will determines the world, human freedom is precluded. In response, some compatibilists maintain that natural and theological determinism are fundamentally distinct. This paper defends and develops this compatibilist position. I argue that theological determinism can be reconciled with robust, libertarian-style free will, provided we adopt a substance-causal framework. On this model, agents are understood as fundamental substances with intrinsic causal powers, and divine determinism is itself construed not as an event-causal chain, but as God’s continuous act of creating and sustaining these agential substances.