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30The God of the Philosophers by Anthony Kenny (review)Journal of Philosophy 79 (7): 410-417. 1982.
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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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274. 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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22Religious KnowledgeProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 46 (n/a): 29. 1972.
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19Adapting AquinasProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 41-58. 2004.This paper enlarges the analogy of meaning doctrine to show that it is a general, law-like linguistic phenomenon, and not peculiar to philosophy. The theory of forms, considered as active, repeatable, intelligible structures of things (accessible as such to intelligent beings alone), is basic to ground the sciences of nature and to an account of knowledge. Aquinas’s accounts of real natures, universals, natural and angelic things, causation, abstraction, knowledge, etc. are grounded in the theor…Read more
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18Thought and World: The Hidden NecessitiesUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 2008.Introduction: Structural realism -- Necessities : earned truth and made truth -- Real impossibility -- What might have been -- Truth -- Perception and abstraction -- Emergent consciousness and irreducible understanding -- Real natures : software everywhere -- Going wrong with the master of falsity.
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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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14Philosophy and Christian TheologyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44 70-85. 1970.
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14The Fate of the AnalysisProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 51-74. 1990.
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11Portraying 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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11The Excavations at Dibon (Dhīb'n) in MoabThe Excavations at Dibon (Dhiban) in MoabJournal of the American Oriental Society 89 (1): 169. 1969.
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10Together with the Body I LoveProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 75 1-18. 2001.Philosophical difficulties with Augustine’s dualism, and with the scholastic “separated souls” account of the gap between personal death and supernatural resurrection, suggest that we consider two other options, each with its own attractions: (i) that the General Resurrection is immediate upon one’s death, despite initial awkwardness with common piety, and (ii) that there is a “natural metamorphosis” of bodily continuity after death and before resurrection.
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8The God of the Philosophers by Anthony Kenny (review)Journal of Philosophy 79 (7): 410-417. 1982.
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5Adapting AquinasProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 41-58. 2004.This paper enlarges the analogy of meaning doctrine to show that it is a general, law-like linguistic phenomenon, and not peculiar to philosophy. The theory of forms, considered as active, repeatable, intelligible structures of things (accessible as such to intelligent beings alone), is basic to ground the sciences of nature and to an account of knowledge. Aquinas’s accounts of real natures, universals, natural and angelic things, causation, abstraction, knowledge, etc. are grounded in the theor…Read more
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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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1A Critical Analysis of the Theory of Analogy of St. Thomas AquinasDissertation, Brown University. 1958.
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Creation IIIn Alfred J. Freddoso (ed.), The Existence and Nature of God, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 115-141. 1983.
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Interpreting Aquinas, thomas+ a rebuttal to 2 criticismsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (2): 234-243. 1991.
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