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4AugustineIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Wisdom, happiness, and virtue Sin, evil, and theodicy Will and personal agency Reason, understanding, and belief Method in philosophical theology God Soul, mind, and memory.
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3The Christian Contribution to Medieval Philosophical TheologyIn Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Christianity's Influence on the Aims and Methods of Medieval Philosophy Christianity's Influence on the Content of Medieval Philosophy Christianity as an External Constraint on Medieval Philosophy Works cited.
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42Christian Theology and the Mind-World RelationshipAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (1): 1-23. 2010.In this article, I explore how orthodox Christian theology informs a philosophical understanding of the mind-world relationship. First, I contend that the Christian doctrine of creation entails that the world possesses an intrinsic rationality and intelligibility. I then go on to show how three different views of the mind-world relationship are compatible with this fact about the world: (a) realism, (b) idealism, and (c) fallibilism. I also delineate the strengths of each view, in terms of how w…Read more
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Gilbert of Poitiers's metaphysics of goodnessIn Wouter Goris (ed.), Die Metaphysik und das Gute: Aufsätze zu ihrem Verhältnis in Antike und Mittelalter: Jan A. Aertsen zu Ehren, Peeters. 1999.
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Foundations in Aquinas's ethicsIn Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Objectivism, subjectivism, and relativism in ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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15Ockham on ConceptsRoutledge. 2004.William of Ockham is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue among scholars in the last decade, and this book presents a full discussion of recent developments. Claude Panaccio proposes a richly documented and entirely original reinterpretation of Ockham's theory of concepts as a coherent blend of representationalism, conceptual atomism, and non reductionist nominalism, stre…Read more
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19The Heritage of Wisdom: Essays in the History of Philosophy (review)Philosophical Review 99 (1): 138-142. 1990.
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1The Esse/Essentia Argument in Aquinas's De ente et essentiaIn Brian Davies (ed.), Thomas Aquinas: contemporary philosophical perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2002.
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The Metaphysics of Goodness in Medieval Philosophy Before Aquinas [Microform]. --University Microfilms International. 1986.
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4Book Review: A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy. Peter Dronke (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (1): 154-55. 1989.
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22Norman Kretzmann 1928-1998Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (5). 1999.
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85Aristotle and the Homonymy of the GoodArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71 (2): 150-74. 1989.
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31Synchronic Contingency, Instants of Nature, and Libertarian FreedomModern Schoolman 72 (2-3): 169-174. 1995.
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27Augustine and neo-platonismIn Jorge J. E. Gracia & Jiyuan Yu (eds.), Uses and abuses of the classics: Western interpretations of Greek philosophy, Ashgate. 2004.From very early on, Western philosophers have been obsessed with the understanding of a relatively few works of philosophy which have played a disproportionately large and fundamental role in developing the Western philosophical canon, dominating the curriculum in the past and in the present; there is no indication that they will not do so in the future.Uses and Abuses of the Classics examines the various ways in which the different periods of the history of philosophy have approached these text…Read more
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41Practical Reasoning and Reasons-Explanations: Aquinas's Account of Reasons Role in ActionIn Scott MacDonald & Eleonore Stump (eds.), Aquinas's Moral Theory, Cornell University Press. 1999.
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83Foundations in Aquinas's ethicsSocial Philosophy and Policy 25 (1): 350-367. 2008.Aquinas argues that practical reasoning requires foundations: first practical principles (ultimate ends) grasped by us per se from which deliberation proceeds. Contrary to the thesis of an important paper of Terence Irwin's, I deny that Aquinas advances two inconsistent conceptions of the scope of deliberation and, correspondingly, two inconsistent accounts of the content of the first practical principles presupposed by deliberation. On my account, Aquinas consistently takes first practical prin…Read more
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15Book Review: Philosophies of Existence: Ancient and Medieval. Parviz Morewedge. (review)Ancient Philosophy 7 259-61. 1987.
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46Aquina's Ultimate Ends: A Reply to GrisezAmerican Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (1): 37-49. 2001.A large part of the ambitious project that Grisez sketches in his paper can reasonably be thought of as developing and extending in interesting ways ideas of Thomas Aquinas. But in Part IV of the paper Grisez dramatically parts company with Aquinas on what might seem a fundamental issue. Aquinas famously holds that human beings find their ultimate fulfillment in beatific vision of God. Grisez tells us that, as he understands that claim, it is false.
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1Augustine, Confessions (ca. 400)In Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg & Bernard N. Schumacher (eds.), The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 96. 2003.
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150The Esse/Essentia Argument in Aquinas's De ente et essentiaJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (2): 157-72. 1984.The purpose of the article is to offer a detailed exegetical analysis of the argument in chapter four of "de ente et essentia" in which aquinas argues for a distinction between "esse" and essence and to develop an interpretation of it on the basis of the analysis. I argue that the reconstructed argument shows that aquinas argues for a real distinction and that he establishes it earlier in the argument than some commentators have thought. I criticize a rival interpretation of the argument defende…Read more
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19In Memoriam: Norman Kretzmann, 1928-1998Journal of Nietzsche Studies 7 (2): 111-114. 1998.Mos enim amicorum est ut cum amicus ad suam exaltationem vadit, de eius recessu minus desolentur
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52Christian FaithIn Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), Reasoned faith: essays in philosophical theology in honor of Norman Kretzmann, Cornell University Press. 1993.
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26Book Review: Luis de Molina: On Divine Foreknowledge (Part IV of the Concordia). Alfred J. Freddoso (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (1): 177-79. 1989.
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34Editor’s IntroductionJournal of Nietzsche Studies 9 (2): 3-5. 2000.This issue of MedievalPhilosophyandTheology is atypical in that it contains a single work by a single philosopher and scholar. Norman Kretzmann, the author of the work here presented, was one of the founders of this journal and served as the chair of its editorial board from the journal’s inception until his untimely death in 1998. His intimate association with MedievalPhilosophyandTheology and his dedication to its mission makes the journal an entirely appropriate vehicle for the publication of…Read more
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