Ockhamism and Agential Powers

Ockhamism promises to reconcile our powers to do other than we actually do with various metaphysical assumptions, including the determinate, “pre-ordained” future and earlier states of knowledge, both human and divine, concerning what we will do. I defend a Ockhamist response to Nelson Pike and John Fischer’s skeptical arguments from divine foreknowledge, arguing that God’s earlier cognitions concerning what we will do in the future are part of the “soft” past that does not constrain our later powers, as those cognitions are dependent upon how we will exercise those powers in the future.