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    The relevant interlocutors for the argument for theological fatalism are those who endorse a libertarian conception of free will.

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    • 1.Compatibilists hold that it is possible for an agent to do otherwise, in the sense required for free will, even if her action is causally determined.
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    • 2.Compatibilists will probably be untroubled by an argument purporting to show that no one can do otherwise given divine foreknowledge.
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    • 1.Some compatibilists, notably Frankfurt, deny that 'able to do otherwise' is necessary for moral responsibility at all.
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    • 2.If compatibilists reject the 'could have done otherwise' requirement entirely, they have positive reasons to engage theological fatalism, not merely ignore it.
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    • 3.An argument that eliminates 'could have done otherwise' threatens Frankfurt-style compatibilism's own positive account of free action, making compatibilists genuine interlocutors.
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    • 1.Classical theists like Aquinas and Molina were compatibilists about providence yet devoted sustained argument to reconciling foreknowledge with contingent human action.
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    • 2.The historical record shows that compatibilist thinkers treated theological fatalism as a serious problem requiring resolution, not as an argument that left them untroubled.
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    • 3.If canonical compatibilist theologians found the argument compelling enough to refute at length, the claim that compatibilists are simply 'untroubled' misrepresents the dialectical history.
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    Compatibilists who hold that it’s possible for an agent to do otherwise, in the sense required for free will, even if her action is causally determined, will probably be untroubled by an argument purporting to show that no one can do otherwise, given divine foreknowledge. The relevant interlocutors for the argument for theological fatalism are those who endorse a libertarian conception of free will (Alston 1985).

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