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152Control and causal determinismIn Sarah Buss & Lee Overton (eds.), Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes From Harry Frankfurt, Mit Press, Bradford Books. 2002.
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116Dialectic and its place in the development of medieval logicCornell University Press. 1989.Introduction Since my work in medieval logic has concentrated on dialectic. I have tried to trace scholastic treatments of dialectic to discussions of it in ...
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1010 Biblical commentary and philosophyIn Norman Kretzmann & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas, Cambridge University Press. pp. 252. 1993.
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8Being and goodnessIn Scott Charles MacDonald (ed.), Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology, Cornell University Press. pp. 98--128. 1991.
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345Absolute SimplicityFaith and Philosophy 2 (4): 353-382. 1985.The doctrine of God’s absolute simplicity denies the possibility of real distinctions in God. It is, e.g., impossible that God have any kind of parts or any intrinsic accidental properties, or that there be real distinctions among God’s essential properties or between any of them and God himself. After showing that some of the counter-intuitive implications of the doctrine can readily be made sense of, the authors identify the apparent incompatibility of God’s simplicity and God’s free choice as…Read more
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214Augustine on free willIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 124--47. 2001.
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195Aquinas on the Foundations of KnowledgeCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 17 (sup1): 125-158. 1991.Aquinas is sometimes taken to hold a foundationalist theory of knowledge. So, for example, Nicholas Wolterstorff says, “Foundationalism has been the reigning theory of theories in the West since the high Middle Ages. It can be traced back as far as Aristotle, and since the Middle Ages vast amounts of philosophical thought have been devoted to elaborating and defending it‥ ‥ Aquinas offers one classic version of foundationalism.” And Alvin Plantinga says, “we can get a better understanding of Aqu…Read more
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63Aquinas on JusticeProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 71 61-78. 1997.
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4Aquinas on Faith and GoodnessIn Scott Charles MacDonald (ed.), Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology, Cornell University Press. pp. 179--207. 1991.
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220Aquinas on the Sufferings of JobIn Daniel Howard-Snyder (ed.), The Evidential Argument from Evil, Indiana University Press. pp. 49--68. 1996.
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19Atonement according to AquinasIn Philosophy and the Christian Faith, Univ Notre Dame Pr. 1988.THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT IS THE CENTRAL DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIANITY, BUT IT HAS NOT RECEIVED MUCH ATTENTION IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, IN PART BECAUSE IT TENDS TO BE KNOWN ONLY IN AN UNREFLECTIVE VERSION FULL OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. I PRESENT AN ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF THE DOCTRINE, TAKEN FROM AQUINAS, ARGUE THAT IT IS A COGENT AND CONSISTENT ACCOUNT, AND SHOW THAT IT DOES NOT SUFFER FROM THE PROBLEMS OF THE UNREFLECTIVE VERSION
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37AquinasRoutledge. 2003.Few philosophers or theologians exerted as much influence on the shape of medieval thought as Thomas Aquinas. He ranks amongst the most famous of the Western philosophers and was responsible for almost single-handedly bringing the philosophy of Aristotle into harmony with Christianity. He was also one of the first philosophers to argue that philosophy and theology could support each other. The shape of metaphysics, theology, and Aristotelian thought today still bears the imprint of Aquinas' work…Read more
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14Aquinas’s Account of FreedomThe Monist 80 (4): 576-597. 1997.It is difficult to develop a comprehensive and satisfactory account of Aquinas’s views of the nature of human freedom.
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140Aquinas’s Account of FreedomThe Monist 80 (4): 576-597. 1997.It is difficult to develop a comprehensive and satisfactory account of Aquinas’s views of the nature of human freedom.
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2Aquinas's account of the mechanisms of intellective cognitionRevue Internationale de Philosophie 52 (204): 287-307. 1998.
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45Aquinas's Account of Freedom: Intellect and WillIn Brian Davies (ed.), Thomas Aquinas: contemporary philosophical perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 576-597. 2002.
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13The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.It has been over a decade since the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to Augustine was published. In that time, reflection on Augustine's life and labors has continued to bear much fruit: significant new studies into major aspects of his thinking have appeared, as well as studies of his life and times and new translations of his work. This new edition of the Companion, which replaces the earlier volume, has eleven new chapters, revised versions of others, and a comprehensive updated bibli…Read more
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39Walter Burley and the Obligationes attributed to William of SherwoodHistory and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2): 9-26. 1983.The history of the mediaeval obligationes-literature has only recently begun to be studied. Two important treatises in this literature, one by Walter Burley and the other attributed to William of Sherwood, have been edited by Romuald Green in a forthcoming book. But there is considerable doubt concerning the authenticity of the text attributed to Sherwood. The correct attribution and dating of this treatise is crucial for our understanding of the history of this literature. In this paper, we arg…Read more
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1The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 1, Logic and the Philosophy of Language (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1988.This is the first of a three-volume anthology intended as a companion to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Volume 1 is concerned with the logic and the philosophy of language, and comprises fifteen important texts on questions of meaning and inference that formed the basis of Medieval philosophy. As far as is practicable, complete works or topically complete segments of larger works have been selected. The editors have provided a full introduction to the volume and detailed int…Read more
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47Logic and the philosophy of language (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1988.This is the first of a three-volume anthology intended as a companion to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy. Volume 1 is concerned with the logic and the philosophy of language, and comprises fifteen important texts on questions of meaning and inference that formed the basis of Medieval philosophy. As far as is practicable, complete works or topically complete segments of larger works have been selected. The editors have provided a full introduction to the volume and detailed int…Read more
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