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2Being and Knowing: Studies in Thomas Aquinas and Later Medieval Philosophers (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (2): 410-411. 1991.This remarkable collection of studies within the area of metaphysics focuses on figures in the period of 1250 to 1350, with retrospective and prospective considerations of ancient sources and repercussions in the Renaissance. Where necessary, these previously published articles are revised in the light of more recent investigations, and references to obsolete editions are supplemented with citations of newer, critical editions. Reflecting over forty years of research, these twenty-three selected…Read more
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2The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 177-178. 1996.This study of the antagonists of Cartesian thought in the Netherlands during Descartes' lifetime focuses principally on the reactions and criticisms of the Dutch Calvinist theologian, Gisbertu Voetius. It not only offers insights into cultural and intellectual aspects of seventeenth-century university life in the Low Countries, but also a detailed analysis of Calvinist theologians' utilization of Scholastic sources in order to confront the implications of Descartes' doctrines.
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Doctrinal Precisions in Aquinas’ Super librum de causisArchives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Âge 61 7-29. 1994.St. Thomas Aquinas’ exposition of the Liber de causis, one of the few extended commentaries on this influential work, has received much greater detailed attention during recent decades. Nonetheless, interpretations have diverged concerning how this Neoplatonic source was assimilated and refined by Aquinas. It is not only important to comprehend the originality of procedures and accomplishment of St. Thomas in relation to his work for the sake of historical precision. Equally important is the int…Read more
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32Emotion and personality factors influence the neural response to emotional stimuliBehavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (3): 156-157. 2012.Lindquist et al. assess the neural evidence for locationist versus psychological construction accounts of human emotion. A wealth of experimental and clinical investigations show that individual differences in emotion and personality influence emotion processing. These factors may also influence the brain's response to emotional stimuli. A synthesis of the relevant neuroimaging data must therefore take these factors into consideration
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34Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition. By John D. Turner. Pp. xix, 842. Louvain, Peeters/Presses de l'Université de Laval, 2nd edition, 2006, $103.00/£67.00. Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica: Collected Essays of Gilles Quispel. Edited by Johannes van Oort . Pp. xiv, 869. Leiden, Brill, 2008, $289.00/£170.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 53 (2): 294-296. 2012.
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37Philosophy, theology and mysticism in medieval Islam: Texts and studies on the development and history of Kalam, vol. I. by Richard M. Frank: Book reviews (review)Heythrop Journal 50 (4): 716-717. 2009.
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32John Deely’s Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics (review)American Journal of Semiotics 21 (1/4): 207-209. 2005.
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8Counterpoint in Explanation of Originative ApprehensionStudia Gilsoniana 5 (3): 465-489. 2016.Originative apprehension often has been examined in recent decades in light of Aquinas’ reflections. Yet there has not always been agreement in regard to what constitutes such, often due to different emphases given by interpreters to aspects of St. Thomas’ analyses articulated in different contexts. Arguably, it is possible to reconcile certain seemingly divergent important interpretations by reflecting on an important, yet somewhat recessive, theme that Thomas adverted to sparingly throughout h…Read more
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6Economics in the Medieval Schools (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (4): 829-830. 1994.Odd Langholm has previously given us three important book-length studies on price and value, wealth and money in the Aristotelian tradition, and the Aristotelian analysis of usury. The present work is an effort to integrate virtually all the secondary literature on economic speculation by every significant figure who studied or taught at Paris during its golden age. This is no mere compilation of prior research, however. The author has made detailed examinations of unedited manuscripts and rare …Read more
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27Truth and Justification (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (2): 438-440. 2004.This work appeared in German in 1999 although two chapters, “Some further clarifications of the Concept of Communicative Rationality” and “Richard Rorty’s Pragmatic Turn”, were included in the earlier translation of Pragmatics of Communication. New essays replace these and a new final reflection is supplied making this superbly translated tightly woven collection slightly distinct.
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11Furton, Edward. A Medieval Semiotic: Reference and Representation in John of St. Thomas' Theory of Signs (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 153-154. 1996.This presentation of one of the most coherent articulations of knowledge and sign theory available at the time of emerging Renaissance speculation is of interest for both doctrinal and historical reasons. A secondary achievement is a general defense of the objectivity of knowledge which takes the reflections of De Saussure and Derrida into account, as well as the historical origin of their concerns in Kant's understanding of how his own predecessors understood judgment. All of these portrayals, …Read more
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23Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (4): 872-874. 2006.This is the twentieth volume in this respected series on ancient philosophy that offers scholarly presentations on ancient speculators with comments on each by competent respondents.
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25The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea: A Synthesis of Greek Thought and Biblical Truth. By Stephen M. HildebrandHeythrop Journal 52 (5): 825-827. 2011.
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28Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science. By G. E. R. Lloyd (review)Heythrop Journal 49 (4): 670-672. 2008.
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17The libraries of the neoplatonists. Edited by Cristina D'Ancona: Book reviews (review)Heythrop Journal 50 (4): 705-706. 2009.
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23Tradition and Authenticity (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (2): 374-375. 1993.This work finds some inspiration in the investigations of the late Eric Vogelin, who insisted that the existence of history and man's existence within history result from man's articulation of his experience as ordered to the whole of being and its source. While Langan's enterprise does not explicitly rest on Vogelin's judgment in his Order and History that "God, man, world and society form a primordial community in being," it is within these speculative parameters that he works.
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13Les Attributions (review)Review of Metaphysics 39 (3): 577-579. 1986.This translation has been rendered in order to compensate for the absence of any recent commentary in French on Aristotle's Categories, that work which Simplicius insisted is the proem to all Philosophy since this treatise is a source of logic, and logic precedes all Philosophy. Besides offering as literally and accurately as possible the sense of Aristotle's text, this volume contains as well the interesting commentary inspired by the teaching of Ammonius of Hermeias, which to this date has not…Read more
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32Species Intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge: II. Renaissance Controversies, Later Scholasticism, and the Elimination of Intelligibile Species in Modern PhilosophyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 72 (4): 601-604. 1998.
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24Being and Some Twentieth-Century Thomists (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (4): 619-625. 2003.
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The Route to Substance in Suarez's "Disputationes Metaphysicae"Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (n/a): 98. 1987.
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10Accidental Being (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (2): 406-409. 1990.Peter of Bergomo, one of the first to attempt to compile an index and concordance of Aquinas's works, often noted apparent discrepancies between diverse texts. His entry for "accidens" is no exception since approximately ten percent of its divisions are prefaced by the familiar "oppositum videtur dicere." The reader is left with the task of determining whether Bergomo's notations concern only apparent contradictions or whether St. Thomas indeed made significant alterations in his understanding o…Read more