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Jacques Maritain Against Modern Pseudo-Humanism, in: Atti del Congresso Tomista Internazionale su l’Umanesimo Cristiano nel III Millennio: La Prospettiva di Tommaso d’Aquino, 21-25 Settembre 2003, Vatican City (Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis) 2004, 780-791 (also available at: http://e-aquinas.net/pdf/blum.pdf). (review)http://e-aquinas.net/pdf/blum.pdf. 2004.
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103The immortality of the soulIn James Hankins (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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1125MICHAEL POLANYI: CAN THE MIND BE REPRESENTED BY A MACHINE?Polanyiana 19 (1-2): 35-60. 2010.In 1949, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester organized a symposium “Mind and Machine” with Michael Polanyi, the mathematicians Alan Turing and Max Newman, the neurologists Geoff rey Jeff erson and J. Z. Young, and others as participants. Th is event is known among Turing scholars, because it laid the seed for Turing’s famous paper on “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, but it is scarcely documented. Here, the transcript of this event, together with Polanyi’s original…Read more
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Giordano Bruno's Changing of Default PositionsIn Anne Eusterschulte & Henning S. Hufnagel (eds.), Turning traditions upside down: rethinking Giordano Bruno's enlightenment, Central European University Press. pp. 13-18. 2013.
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19Religion – Gesellschaft – Demokratie. Ausgewählte Aufsätze (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (1): 177-178. 2004.Western Creed, Western Identity: such was the title of a volume of collected essays by Jude P. Dougherty published in 2000; most of these essays are now made available in this German translation. Since the author is well known to the readership of the Review of Metaphysics, which he has served as editor for thirty years, his thought need not to be introduced by way of a book review; rather, it will be of interest to emphasize the timeliness of these studies for the German audience.
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1978
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |