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22On the Occasion of Darwin’s BicentennialProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 83 209-225. 2009.If Aquinas lived today, he would accept that Darwin was correct, at leastas to the broad lines of his theory, namely, that the unfit are differentially eliminatedand chance is involved in the origin of new species. Aquinas in fact offered a similarexplanation for what he believed were spontaneously generated organisms. I intendto show that extending this sort of explanation to all species in no way affects thekey steps in the Fifth Way (e.g., “those things which lack cognition do not tendto an e…Read more
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22Aristotelian-Thomistic Reflections on the Use of Metaphors and Parables in PhilosophyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 72 149-161. 1998.
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12Imagination as Source of Falsehood According to AquinasProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 67 187-202. 1993.
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146. ET Meets Jesus Christ: A Hostile Encounter Between Science and Religion?Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 10 (2). 2007.
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36Imagination as Source of Falsehood According to AquinasProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 67 187-202. 1993.
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8Aquinas on Whether One Ought to Confide All One’s Problems to True FriendsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 82 173-188. 2008.Probably most of us have suffered at the hands of a friend who continually turned to us for help, as well having been grieved by a friend who failed to do so on a given occasion. And we have probably been chagrinned by friends who divulge to us only the most limited knowledge about their past problems, as well as by friends who provide unnecessary information about their woeful past. The purpose of this paper is to set out Aquinas’s recommendations for the moral guidelines to be followed in deci…Read more
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26Aristotelian-Thomistic Reflections on the Use of Metaphors and Parables in PhilosophyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 72 149-161. 1998.
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43Aquinas on Whether One Ought to Confide All One’s Problems to True FriendsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 82 173-188. 2008.Probably most of us have suffered at the hands of a friend who continually turned to us for help, as well having been grieved by a friend who failed to do so on a given occasion. And we have probably been chagrinned by friends who divulge to us only the most limited knowledge about their past problems, as well as by friends who provide unnecessary information about their woeful past. The purpose of this paper is to set out Aquinas’s recommendations for the moral guidelines to be followed in deci…Read more
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