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25Not a Little ConfusingAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (1): 101-123. 2016.Fifty-plus years ago, Ralph McInerny’s The Logic of Analogy characterized Francis Silvestri of Ferrara’s doctrine of analogy as a confusing hybrid of the thought of Thomas Aquinas and of Thomas Cajetan. Since then, scholarship on fifteenth-century Thomism has flourished, thanks especially to the efforts of Ashworth, Bonino, Hochschild, Riva, and Tavuzzi. In light of these decades of scholarship, in this article I reconsider Francis Silvestri’s doctrine of analogy. I attempt to show the merits of…Read more
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43Dominic of Flanders’ Critique of John Duns Scotus’ Primary Argument for the Univocity of BeingVivarium 56 (1-2): 176-199. 2018.This article considers the attempt by a prominent fifteenth-century follower of Thomas Aquinas, Dominic of Flanders, to address John Duns Scotus’ most famous argument for the univocity of being. According to Scotus, the intellect must have a concept of being that is univocal to substantial and accidental being, and to finite and infinite being, on the grounds that an intellect cannot be both certain and doubtful through the same concept, but an intellect can be certain that something is a being …Read more
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4A Thomist Re-consideration of the Subject Matter of MetaphysicsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89 209-223. 2015.Catholic Philosophy has long acknowledged the primary place of Metaphysics, and a primary question of metaphysicians is “what is Metaphysics about?” This paper engages this primary metaphysical question through the lens of Scholastic dispute over the adequate subject matter of Metaphysics. Chrysostom Iavelli defended the position that the subject of Metaphysics is real being common to God and creatures against the position of his predecessor Dominic Flandrensis who had argued that it is categori…Read more
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7Analogy after Aquinas: logical problems, Thomistic answersCatholic University of America Press. 2019.Since the first decade of the 14th Century, Thomas Aquinas’s disciples have struggled to explain and defend his doctrine of analogy. Analogy after Aquinas: Logical Problems, Thomistic Answers relates a history of prominent Medieval and Renaissance Thomists’ efforts to solve three distinct but interrelated problems arising from their reading both of Aquinas’s own texts on analogy, and from John Duns Scotus’s arguments against analogy and in favor of univocity in Metaphysics and Natural Theology. …Read more
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12Being as First Known and the Analogy or Univocity of Being: Scotus versus CajetanReview of Metaphysics 73 (4): 741-770. 2020.
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34Analogous Unity in the Writings of John Duns ScotusJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (4): 561-589. 2022.Abstractabstract:Aristotle identifies four modes of unity: numerical, specific, generic, and proportional or analogous. Recent scholarship has renewed the Renaissance and early Modern Thomist critique that John Duns Scotus's (d. 1308) doctrine of the univocity of being is based on a failure to appreciate proportional unity. This paper attempts to fill a gap in the copious literature on Scotus's doctrine of the univocity of being by presenting and offering an analysis of the texts where Scotus ad…Read more
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33Does Analogy Work in Demonstration?International Philosophical Quarterly 61 (1): 47-60. 2021.Thomas de Vio Cajetan produced a highly influential Thomistic treatise on analogy entitled De nominum analogia. The merits of this work have been contested since the sixteenth century. Notable twentieth-century Thomists who adopted many of the teachings of De nominum analogia include Jacques Maritain and Yves Simon. Joshua Hochschild’s The Semantics of Analogy highlighted the significance of chapter ten, where Cajetan applies his theory to resolve the problem of demonstrations that use analogous…Read more
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26Analogy of DisjunctionStudia Neoaristotelica 17 (1): 7-33. 2020.At the beginning of his influential De Nominum Analogia, Thomas de Vio Cajetan mentions three mistaken positions on analogy. He does not attach names to these positions, but each one was held by distinguished Thomists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Furthermore, their proponents were responding to the same set of challenges from John Duns Scotus that set the agenda for the De Nominum Analogia. In this paper, I would like to do something that Cajetan did not do, and that is, directly c…Read more
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11Una ratio versus Diversae rationes: Three Interpretations of Summa theologiae I, Q. 13, AA. 1–6Nova et Vetera 17 (1): 39-55. 2019.
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Thomas Sutton's Doctrine of Analogy: Revisiting a Continuator of Thomas AquinasNova et Vetera 14 (4). 2016.
Domenic D'Ettore
Marian University, Indianapolis, IN
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Marian University, Indianapolis, INDepartment Of Theology And PhilosophyAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |