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73Thomas Aquinas on Logic, Being, and Power, and Contemporary Problems for Divine OmnipotenceSophia 56 (2): 247-261. 2017.I discuss Thomas Aquinas’ views on being, power, and logic, and show how together they provide rebuttals against certain principal objections to the notion of divine omnipotence. The objections I have in mind can be divided into the two classes. One says that the notion of omnipotence ends up in self-contradiction. The other says that it ends up contradicting certain doctrines of traditional theism. Thomas’ account is frequently misunderstood to be a version of what I call a ‘consistent descript…Read more
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45How Aristotelian is Contemporary Dispositionalist Metaphysics? A Tale of Two DistinctionsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 88 85-99. 2014.Exciting and important work on the metaphysics of causal powers and dispositions is currently under way. Much of it has been branded as a return to Aristotelian metaphysics, as it seems to put agents and their actions back as ultimate principles of reality. Philosophers involved in this work often speak of a ‘categorical—dispositional’ distinction. And sometimes it is suggested that the distinction is, or is similar to, Aristotle’s distinction between act and potency. The aim of this paper is to…Read more
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