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    Thought and World: The Hidden Necessities
    University 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.
  •  12
    The Fate of the Analysis
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 51-74. 1990.
  •  5
    Together with the Body I Love
    Proceedings 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.
  •  4
    Adapting Aquinas
    Proceedings 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
  •  75
    Together with the Body I Love
    Proceedings 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
  •  30
    The Logic of Analogy (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 2 (4): 633-642. 1962.
  •  29
    The God of the Philosophers by Anthony Kenny (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 79 (7): 410-417. 1982.
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    The God We Seek
    Philosophical Review 76 (2): 255. 1967.
  •  33
    The Fate of the Analysis
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 (n/a): 51-74. 1990.
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    The Excavations at Dibon (Dhīb'n) in MoabThe Excavations at Dibon (Dhiban) in Moab
    with Fred V. Winnett and William L. Reed
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 89 (1): 169. 1969.
  •  5
    The 1957 Excavation at Beth-Zur
    with Ovid R. Sellers, Robert W. Funk, John L. McKenzie, Nancy Lapp, and Paul W. Lapp
    Journal of the American Oriental Society 92 (2): 302. 1972.
  •  19
    Religious Knowledge
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 46 (n/a): 29. 1972.
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    Reply
    International Philosophical Quarterly 2 (4): 658-662. 1962.
  •  10
    Philosophy and Christian Theology
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44 70-85. 1970.
  •  64
    On Proofs for the Existence of God
    The 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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    On Christian Philosophy
    The 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.
  •  83
    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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    No Title available: REVIEWS
    Religious Studies 5 (2): 261-266. 1969.
  •  57
    Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (4): 592-594. 1987.
  •  70
    Justice Is Reasonableness
    The 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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    A New Theory of Analogy
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44 (n/a): 70-85. 1970.
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    Analogy and the resolution of some cognitivity problems
    Journal of Philosophy 67 (20): 725-746. 1970.
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    Philosophical Theology
    Philosophical Review 81 (4): 509. 1972.
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    The Reification of Appearance
    Philosophy 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
  •  5
    Portraying 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