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15Thought 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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12The Fate of the AnalysisProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 51-74. 1990.
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5Together 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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4Adapting 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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75Together 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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29The God of the Philosophers by Anthony Kenny (review)Journal of Philosophy 79 (7): 410-417. 1982.
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33The Fate of the AnalysisProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 (n/a): 51-74. 1990.
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7The 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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19Religious KnowledgeProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 46 (n/a): 29. 1972.
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10Philosophy and Christian TheologyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44 70-85. 1970.
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64On Proofs for the Existence of GodThe Monist 54 (2): 201-217. 1970.First, I shall summarize a few points which have been explained and defended elsewhere. Some may find these assumptions unacceptable; but it seems otiose to repeat arguments I cannot at present improve.
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84On Christian PhilosophyThe Monist 75 (3): 354-380. 1992.We have to frame a position that fits philosophy as it is done now, but respects its perennial features yet also responds to the literature concerning medieval writers and the recent suggestions for contemporary philosophy.
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83On Christian philosophy: Una Vera philosophia?The Monist 75 (3). 1992.Philosophy, as Aquinas, and many others, described it-- as a demonstrative progression from self-evident premises to evident (or even necessary [Scotus]) conclusions,-- is rarely attempted nowadays, even by "scholastic" philosophers. Demonstrative success,-- that is, entirely to eliminate competitors to one's conclusions, -- is not the expectation now, nor has it been the achievement of philosophers historically. Thus, some restrictions upon starting points may be relaxed as unnecessary, e.g. th…Read more
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57Metaphysical themes in Thomas AquinasJournal of the History of Philosophy 25 (4): 592-594. 1987.
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70Justice 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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40A New Theory of AnalogyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44 (n/a): 70-85. 1970.
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32Analogy and the resolution of some cognitivity problemsJournal of Philosophy 67 (20): 725-746. 1970.
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13The 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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34Charles 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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5Portraying 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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54Suarez on individuation. Metaphysical disputation 5, individual unity and its principleJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (4): 476-478. 1984.
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