The Shackles of Foreknowledge

Abstract Many incompatibilists have claimed that divine foreknowledge would rob us of the ability to do otherwise, even though that knowledge would not itself play any role in producing our behavior (either in the actual world or in counterfactual situations where we try to do otherwise). Some philosophers have rejected this position on the grounds that it would require a mysterious non-causal constraint on ability. I argue that this worry is overstated, and I suggest a new way for the incompatibilist to understand the supposed shackles of foreknowledge.