Mind, metaphysics, and value in the Thomistic and analytical traditions / edited by John Haldane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haldane, John.

Series:

Thomistic studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2002]

Summary:

Contemporary western philosophy divides into three broad traditions: the analytical, the continental, and the historical. In the latter half of the twentieth century, analytical philosophy was dominant in the English-speaking world and tended to ignore the other two traditions. Now, however, analytical philosophy is less isolationist. It has come to appreciate the vitality of historical philosophy. Given their commonality of interests and shared appreciation of the values of conceptual clarity and argumentative rigor, the main English-language tradition and the philosophy of Aquinas and, more broadly, of Thomism, are particularly well suited for mutual engagement. The essays in this collection range widely across the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, and theory of value with most linking analytical and Aristotelian-Thomistic ideas and some focusing on Aquinas in particular. Mind, Metaphysics, and Value brings together the interests, knowledge, and expertise of a wide range of scholars to form a broad and exciting intellectual community.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Aquinas after Wittgenstein / Fergus Kerr 1

Chapter 2 The Active and Potential Intellects: Aquinas as a Philosopher in His Own Right / David Braine 18

Chapter 3 Aquinas and the Mind-Body Problem / Richard Cross 36

Chapter 4 The Breakdown of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind / John Haladane 54

Chapter 5 Voluntary Action and Non-Voluntary Causality / C.F.J. Martin 76

Chapter 6 Thomistic Agent-Causalism / Stefaan E. Cuypers 90

Chapter 7 Habits, Cognition, and Realism / Jonathan Jacobs 109

Chapter 8 Hylomorphism and Individuation / David S. Oderberg 125

Chapter 9 Aquinas on God's Knowledge of Future Contingents / Christopher Hughes 143

Chapter 10 Ontology and the Art of the Possible / Gerard J. Hughes, S.J. 160

Chapter 11 Contemporary "Essentialism" vs. Aristotelian Essentialism / Gyula Klima 175

Chapter 12 Practical Reason and the Orders of Morals and Nature in Aquinas's Theory of the Lex Naturae / M.W.F. Stone 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0268034672

OCLC:

48884920