451. Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve: Free Will in the Second Scholastic

What was Luis de Molina trying to say about human free will with his doctrine of “middle knowledge,” and why did it provoke such controversy?

• A.J. Freddoso (trans.), Luis de Molina: On Divine Foreknowledge (Ithaca: 1988).

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• R.M. Adams, “Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil,” American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1977), 109-17.

• T.P. Flint, Divine Providence: the Molinistic Account (Ithaca: 2006).

• M. Kaufmann and A. Aichele (eds), A Companion to Luis de Molina (Leiden: 2014).

• K.R. MacGregor, Luís de Molina: The Life and Theology of the Founder of the Middle Knowledge (Grand Rapids: 2015).

• R.J. Matava, Divine Causality and Human Free Choice: Domingo Báñez, Physical Premotion, and the Controversy de Auxiliis Revisited (Leiden: 2016).

• K. Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: the Contemporary Debate (Oxford: 2012).