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6Euripides, Troades 95–7: Is Something Missing?Classical Quarterly 1-3. forthcoming.This paper raises objections to the constitution of these lines in the OCT. The lines are gnomic but they generalize based on an actual sequence of events just described and should contain an allusion to the offence that will cause the Greeks to perish, the outrage against Athena's temple. This, it is argued, stood in a lacuna best marked after 95. The article has three theses: (1) sacking ‘cities, temples, and tombs’ is implausible because the latter two are parts of the first; (2) plundering t…Read more
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25The Philosophy of Being in the Analytic, Continental, and Thomistic Traditions: Divergence and DialogueBloomsbury Academic. 2020.This book provides a discussion of the philosophy of being according to three major traditions in Western philosophy, the Analytic, the Continental, and the Thomistic. The origin of the point of view of each of these traditions is associated with a seminal figure, Gottlob Frege, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Aquinas, respectively. The questions addressed in this book are constitutional for the philosophy of being, considering the meaning of being, the relationship between thinking and being, and the…Read more
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6‘What Harbour Will There Not Be for Your Cries?’ (420) and Other Textual Problems in Sophocles’ Oedipvs TyrannvsClassical Quarterly 72 (1): 101-108. 2022.These four textual notes attempt (1) to demonstrate thatOT420 as transmitted is unlikely to impossible, and to show the desirability of Blaydes's conjectureποῖοϲ οὐκ ἔϲται ᾿λικών, that is,Ἑλικών; (2) to argue for the necessity of readingἄνforεἰat line 121 and of making the line a complete sentence; (3) to argue for a lacuna before line 530; and (4) to proposeτίϲ ἄταιϲ μᾶλλον ἢ τίϲ ἀγρίαι ξύνοικοϲ ἁλλαγᾶι βίου;in lines 1205–6.
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11Horace, Odes 1.30Classical Quarterly 72 (1): 441-444. 2022.This brief poem (Hor. Carm. 1.30) is by turns enigmatic (what is the purpose of Horace's prayer to Venus?) and slightly incoherent (why should both Horace and Glycera be praying to Venus? Are they praying for the same thing or for different things? Either has its problems). A further problem is that, if Horace intended uocantis in line 2 for a genitive, the text as it stands misleads the first-time reader, contrary to Horace's normal practice of authorial kindness toward such readers. The way to…Read more
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1500The Coherence of Aquinas's Account of Divine SimplicityDissertation, . 2018.Divine simplicity is central to Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy of God. Most important for Aquinas is his view that God’s existence (esse) is identical to God’s essence; for everything other than God, there is a distinction between existence and essence. However, recent developments in analytic philosophy about the nature of existence threaten to undermine what Aquinas thought regarding divine simplicity. In the first chapter of this dissertation, I trace Aquinas’s thinking on divine simplicity thro…Read more
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987Overall and Aquinas on MiraclesDialogue 55 (1): 151-160. 2016.Christine Overall has argued that miracles, if they exist, would be an evil committed by God and therefore disprove the existence of God. However, her notion of a miracle as an intervention presupposes a view about the relation between God and creation that posits God as an ‘outsider.’ Such a view has not been held by all theists. It was not held by Thomas Aquinas. I show that Aquinas ’s conception is not susceptible to Overall’s criticisms. The upshot is that theists should avoid any view of Go…Read more
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33Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind. By James Madden (Review) (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 55 (1): 128-130. 2015.
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9Being in America: Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society (edited book)Editions Rodopi. 2014.Since its founding in 1950, the Metaphysical Society of America has remained a pluralistic community dedicated to rigorous philosophical inquiry into the most basic metaphysical questions. At each year’s conference, the presidential address offers original insights into metaphysical questions. Both the insights and the questions are as perennial as they are relevant to contemporary philosophers. This volume collects eighteen of the finest representatives from those presidential addresses, includ…Read more
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