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59Metaphysical themes in Thomas AquinasJournal of the History of Philosophy 25 (4): 592-594. 1987.
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26Justice Is ReasonablenessThe Monist 58 (1): 86-103. 1974.The morality of human actions consists in their reasonableness. An act is reasonable if doing that sort of thing under the circumstances is a reasonable application, in the particular circumstances, of general principles of action which are intelligible and obvious to virtually everyone. Such applications to particular events are conclusions, usually guided by derivative and subordinate principles of natural law and of human law, and do not, therefore, have the certitude of science; in fact, nat…Read more
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10A New Theory of AnalogyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44 (n/a): 70-85. 1970.
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34Analogy and the resolution of some cognitivity problemsJournal of Philosophy 67 (20): 725-746. 1970.
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15The Reification of AppearancePhilosophy 40 (152). 1965.By all indications, the popularity of the Sense-Datum Theory is definitely on the wane. This once-proud theory, which was perhaps the most characteristic feature of British Philosophy during the first half of this century, has been attacked from so many different sides that even its foremost protagonists have either accepted the very watered-down version according to which it is just an alternative language for speaking about the facts of perception or else they hold their peace and let the youn…Read more
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14Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism: A Study of Peirce's Relation to John Duns Scotus (review)Journal of Philosophy 62 (3): 80-83. 1965.
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12Portraying Analogy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1981.The attention of philosophers. linguists and literary theorists has been converging on the diverse and intriguing phenomena of analogy of meaning:the different though related meanings of the same word, running from simple equivocation to paronymy, metaphor and figurative language. So far, however, their attempts at explanation have been piecemeal and inconclusive and no new and comprehensive theory of analogy has emerged. This is what James Ross offers here. In the first full treatment of the su…Read more
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57Suarez on individuation. Metaphysical disputation 5, individual unity and its principleJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (4): 476-478. 1984.
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14Rethinking the Ontological Argument (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (1): 147-150. 2007.
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9The God of the Philosophers by Anthony Kenny (review)Journal of Philosophy 79 (7): 410-417. 1982.
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Interpreting Aquinas, thomas+ a rebuttal to 2 criticismsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (2): 234-243. 1991.
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33Aquinas’s Exemplarism; Aquinas’s VoluntarismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (2): 171-198. 1990.
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1A Critical Analysis of the Theory of Analogy of St. Thomas AquinasDissertation, Brown University. 1958.
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2Aquinas on Belief and KnowledgeIn Allan Bernard Wolter, William A. Frank & Girard J. Etzkorn (eds.), Essays honoring Allan B. Wolter, Franciscan Institute. pp. 245--269. 1985.
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47Testimonial evidenceIn Keith Lehrer (ed.), Analysis and Metaphysics, Springer. pp. 35-55. 1975.Knowledge through what others tell us not only forms a large part of the body of our knowledge but also originates the patterns of appraisal according to which we add beliefs to our present store of knowledge.1 I do not mean merely that what we add is often accepted from persons who have already contributed to our knowledge; beyond that, we have acquired habits of thought, tendencies to suspect and tendencies to approve both other-person-reports and purported perceptions, from our testimonial re…Read more
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284. For the best demonstration that one does or does not see stars that were in existence a long time agoReview of Metaphysics 15 (1): 136-141. 1961.
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74Analogy as a Rule of Meaning for Religious LanguageInternational Philosophical Quarterly 1 (3): 468-502. 1961.
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Creation IIIn Alfred J. Freddoso (ed.), The Existence and Nature of God, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 115-141. 1983.
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52The Miracle Of Theism (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (3): 657-660. 1985.Mackie examines "the arguments for and against the existence of God carefully and in some detail, taking account both of the traditional concept of God and of the traditional 'proofs' of his existence and of more recent interpretations and approaches". He is fairly comprehensive even though, in my opinion, he misses the best versions of some of the best arguments. He does not, as one would hope, give many arguments that God does not exist, beyond considerations from evil and an implicit one from…Read more
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28Did God Create the Only Possible World?Review of Metaphysics 16 (1). 1962.2. Spinoza, as is well known, held both and explicitly and concluded that God does not act from free will. In Note II to Prop. 33 of the Ethics Spinoza says, "Although it be granted that will appertains to the essence of God, it nevertheless follows from His perfection that things could not have been by Him created other than they are or in a different order."
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