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32L’Enjeu de la Philosophie Médiévale (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (3): 381-384. 1992.
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20Truth and Historicity (review)Review of Metaphysics 49 (1): 126-128. 1995.This work by a Reader in Philosophy at the Australian National University is an effort to offer a scholarly examination of the history of the concept of truth. Inspired by Hegel's insight concerning philosophy as "nachdenken", Campbell seeks to elucidate the meaning of truth through the mediation of major figures intensely concerned with the issue from the Greeks until the present. The aim is a "deeper self-understanding with respect to the themes of truth and historicity" accessible to a wider …Read more
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21Culture and the Thomist Tradition After Vatican II (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (3): 511-516. 2005.
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27Philo of alexandria and post-aristotelian Philosophy. Edited by Francesca alesse: Book reviews (review)Heythrop Journal 50 (4): 699-700. 2009.
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22Proclus: An Introduction. By Radek Chlup. Pp. xv, 328, Cambridge University Press, 2012, $110.00/£69.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 57 (1): 219-221. 2016.
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26The Thomist Tradition (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (3): 652-653. 2004.Close examinations of competing interpretations of Aquinas complement insistence on the profound coherence of Aquinas’s reflections without any caricature of his works as a manualist encyclopedia with ready responses to all questions. Yet the author firmly holds that one can adjudicate competing interpretations of major issues and indicates those he considers more certain or correct. Familiarity with virtually all “thomasian” interpretive genotypes is evidenced.
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29Analyses of Aristotle (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 642-645. 2006.The first two chapters examine Aristotle’s notion of existence and the allegation that he understood is to intrinsically involve ambiguity. Hintikka insists “that Aristotle may have been the only early philosopher who consciously considered the ambiguity thesis,” yet “he, too, rejected it”. Moreover, uncritical acceptance of the Frege-Russell view, which emphasizes inherent ambiguity in the is of predication, identity, existence, and class-inclusion in natural and most philosophical discourse, n…Read more
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18Speaking the Incomprehensible God (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (3): 680-682. 2005.This is an exceptional achievement of comprehension and depth in elucidating and explaining positions, principles, and rationales of Aquinas in unfolding contexts. No staid effort to merely portray the doctrines of a great thinker of the past, it is rather a truly creative exploration that reveals how Aquinas’ insights might assist an ordered integration of truths about the divine nature within differing speculative traditions.
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40De Rijk on Aristotle’s Semantics and Ontology (review)American Journal of Semiotics 21 (1/4): 88-91. 2005.
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18Simplicius (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (1): 188-190. 2005.Utilizing the 1894 edition of Simplicius's commentary by J. L. Heiberg in the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, and P. Moraux's 1965 edition of Aristotle's De Caelo, this translation continues a valuable project under the general editorship of R. Sorabji that offers English readers access to works by ancient commentators on Aristotle. By comparing pertinent printed editions and manuscripts, Mueller has maintained the highest standards in weighing variant readings. This is evidenced in the 500 n…Read more
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17Platonic Ideas and Concept Formation in Ancient and Medieval Thought (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (1): 183-186. 2005.This tribute to Carlos Steel, director of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre and former Dean of Philosophy at Leuven University, offers a full bibliography of this eminent scholar's research in areas of ancient thought, critical editions of medieval texts, and central issues dealt with by prominent medieval speculators. This is followed by eleven essays arranged in three major groupings
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12The Route to Substance in Suarez’s Disputationes MetaphysicaeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 61 98-111. 1987.
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29Accidental Being (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (2): 406-409. 1990.Peter of Bergomo, one of the first to attempt to compile an index and concordance of Aquinas's works, often noted apparent discrepancies between diverse texts. His entry for "accidens" is no exception since approximately ten percent of its divisions are prefaced by the familiar "oppositum videtur dicere." The reader is left with the task of determining whether Bergomo's notations concern only apparent contradictions or whether St. Thomas indeed made significant alterations in his understanding o…Read more
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27Truth and Justification (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (2): 438-440. 2004.This work appeared in German in 1999 although two chapters, “Some further clarifications of the Concept of Communicative Rationality” and “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Turn”, were included in the earlier translation of Pragmatics of Communication. New essays replace these and a new final reflection is supplied making this superbly translated tightly woven collection slightly distinct.
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11Furton, Edward. A Medieval Semiotic: Reference and Representation in John of St. Thomas' Theory of Signs (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 153-154. 1996.This presentation of one of the most coherent articulations of knowledge and sign theory available at the time of emerging Renaissance speculation is of interest for both doctrinal and historical reasons. A secondary achievement is a general defense of the objectivity of knowledge which takes the reflections of De Saussure and Derrida into account, as well as the historical origin of their concerns in Kant's understanding of how his own predecessors understood judgment. All of these portrayals, …Read more
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26Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (4): 872-874. 2006.This is the twentieth volume in this respected series on ancient philosophy that offers scholarly presentations on ancient speculators with comments on each by competent respondents.
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28Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. By G. E. R. Lloyd (review)Heythrop Journal 49 (4): 670-672. 2008.
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26The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea: A Synthesis of Greek Thought and Biblical Truth. By Stephen M. HildebrandHeythrop Journal 52 (5): 825-827. 2011.