The Analytic Scholastic

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Is Promise-Breaking Lying?

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Eric  brought this question up to me. I tend to think promise-breaking is lying. Here's the form a promise to someone takes: "I pro...
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William Lane Craig on God and Analogy

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William Lane Craig, as with most contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, objects to the classical Thomistic idea that God cannot be...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Is 'Existence' Univocal Because 'All' Is Univocal?

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In this post , Bill Vallicella presents another argument by Peter van Inwagen for the univocity of existence and questions it (he posted and...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Thomistic vs. Molinist Predestination Part III

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In the last post I discussed whether a Thomist could preserve both the efficacy of God's will and the libertarian freedom of our action...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Thomistic vs. Molinist Predestination Part II

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In my last post I explained that God does not cause1 our free actions, but only cause2's them; hence, there can be no conflict between ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Thomistic vs. Molinist Predestination Part I

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This post comes out of a very large and high-quality discussion on predestination on Facebook. If you don't have Facebook you should rea...
Monday, July 23, 2012

A Thomistic Critique of Religious Evidentialism

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There is a certain view among Christian philosophers that in order to be justified in one's belief in Christianity one must have studied...
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