Mathematical physicist Lee Smolin has proposed a theory of Cosmological natural selection which, he argues, explains the existence of our life-supporting universe, and which, he claims, is superior to Anthropic Principle explanations. I will argue in this paper that the theory of Cosmological natural selection does not provide an improvement upon the Weak Anthropic Principle. According to curre...

Molinism, which says that God has middle knowledge, offers one of the most impressive and popular ways combining libertarian creaturely freedom with full providential control by God. The aim this paper is to explain, motivate, defend a heretofore overlooked version Molinism I call ‘Modest Molinism’. In Section 1, explain Modest make an initial case for it. Then, in Sections 2 3, against Dean Zi...

In this article, I define and then defend the principle of information closure (PIC) against a sceptical objection similar to the one discussed by Dretske in relation to the principle of epistemic closure. If I am successful, given that PIC is equivalent to the axiom of distribution and that the latter is one of the conditions that discriminate between normal and non-normal modal logics, a main...