IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1131: Mapping the Origins of the 'Middle Knowledge' Doctrine: Disentangling the Notions of Necessity, Contingency, and Divine Foreknowledge, II
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'Does God Know the Contingents? The Origin in the 16th Century of the Middle Knowledge Doctrine', Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto |
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| Organiser: | João Rebalde, Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto |
| Moderator/Chair: | Paula Oliveira e Silva, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto |
| Paper 1131-a | The Modification of the Medieval Notion of Divine Foreknowledge in Luis de Molina's Middle Knowledge (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 1131-b | Alfonso Mendoza's Middle Knowledge Doctrine (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 1131-c | The Consequences of Pedro Luis' Molinism for His Christology (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
| Abstract | Luis de Molina and Pedro da Fonseca have claimed authorship of the doctrine of middle knowledge, to which they resort in different ways to explain how God knows future contingent. However, despite the growing number of studies on middle knowledge in recent years, a more systematic analysis of the medieval sources of the doctrine and the beginnings of its appearance up to 1588 remains to be done. This session brings together three papers focused on three fundamental authors in the history of middle knowledge - Luis de Molina, Alfonso Mendoza and Pedro Luis - with the aim of analyzing the origins of the doctrine from the Middle Ages to the second scholasticism. |