Isaiah Berlin Philosophy Society – visiting speaker

Sam Lebens – Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa and Orthodox Rabbi – addressed our Isaiah Berlin (Philosophy) Society this week, having recently published a Routledge introduction to philosophy of religion.

His talk focussed on the problems that arise from the claim that God is omniscient. Contrary to what one might have expected, Lebens spent much of the talk giving powerful arguments against the omniscience of God! If God is incorporeal, does God know what strawberry ice cream tastes like? If I have free will, does God know what I am going to do next? If God knows all truths in the set of all truths, then does God know all the truths generated by the power set of all truths? – That would be paradoxical!