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    Duns Scotus and Analogy
    Modern Schoolman 89 (3-4): 147-154. 2012.
    Duns Scotus defends the view that we can speak univocally of God and creatures. When we do so, we use words in the same sense in the two cases. Scotus maintains that the concepts that these univocal words signify are themselves univocal: the same concept in the two cases. In this paper, I consider a related question: does Duns Scotus have the notion of analogous concepts—concepts whose relation to each other lies somewhere between the univocal and the equivocal? Using some neglected texts from S…Read more
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    Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3): 446-448. 2004.
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    Aquinas distinguishes four types of part included in a hypostasis (’suppositum’): (1) kind-nature; (2) individuating feature(s); (3) accidents; (4) concrete parts. (1) - (3) in some sense contribute ’esse’ to the ’suppositum’. Usually Aquinas holds that Christ’s human nature does not contribute ’esse’ to its divine ’suppositum’, since it is analogous to a concrete part of its ’suppositum’. This effectively commits Aquinas to the Monophysite heresy. In ’De Unione’ Aquinas argues instead that Chri…Read more
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    I—Marilyn McCord Adams: What's Metaphysically Special about Supposits? Some Medieval Variations on Aristotelian Substance 1
    with Marilyn McCord Adams
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1): 15-52. 2005.
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    Richard Cross
    with Marilyn McCord Adams
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1): 53-72. 2005.