The first volume of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is now in press, and I thought it might provide a nice teaser to list the table of contents here. So here it is:
Finch&Rea, "Presentism and Ockham's Way Out"
Fischer, "Molinism"
Frances, "Spirituality, Expertise, and Philosophers"
Hajek, "Are Miracles Chimerical?"
Koons, "Epistemological Foundations for the Cosmological Argument"
O'Connor, "Theism and the Scope of Contingency"
Pruss, "On Three Problems of Divine Simplicity"
Senor, "Defending Divine Freedom"
Stump, "The Problem of Evil and the Desires of the Heart"
Van Inwagen, "What Does an Omniscient Being Know about the Future?"
Zagzebski, "Omnisubjectivity"
I heard PvI give the talk "What Does an Omniscient Being Know about the Future?" at the Baylor PR conference back in March. I wrote a summary of it here in case anyone's interested (starting from the third paragraph): http://www.upsaid.com/micahnewman/index.php?action=viewcom&id=319
(as an interested observer but not really active participant in academic philosophy of religion, for what it's worth).
Nice! Can't wait to see it!
Based on Micah's summary, it seems to me that PvI is defining a fact as "given" in terms of time (a fact about the past is "given"), whereas I think it should be defined in terms of explanatory priority. (I suppose the fact that I think of the concept of time as mainly a convenient way of organizing causal relationships is relevant here.)
Thus, the principle of alternate possibilities (and I realize that this is not what PvI is talking about, but it's illustrative) should not be taken as saying that at the time of the choice multiple choices are compatible with the past, but that multiple choices are compatible with what is explanatorily prior to the choice. (In fact, it is kind of natural to say that given relativity theory. For then "past" should be replaced by "past lightcone". But the past lightcone is just the set of points in spacetime events at wich could be causally prior to the choice. The "could" should be dropped in defining a PAP, and "causally" should be generalized to "explanatorily".)