John C Cahalan

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Philosophical (i.e., non-historical) aristotelian applying insights from the whole aristotelian tradition (Avicenna, . . . Yves Simon) to contemporary disputes.
Address: United States

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Georgetown University

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catherine sears

University of Toronto

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Andriy Vasylchenko

Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Christopher Brannan

The Catholic University of America

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Universität Münster

Jeffrey M Ray

University of Western Ontario

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Francis J Caponi, O.S.A.

Villanova University

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The Paradoxical Structure of Existence by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

Thomist, 1971

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Artificial contraception and Abstinence: Reflections on the Human Act

Acta Philosophica: rivista internazionale di filosofia, 2003

Analogy and the Disrepute of Metaphysics

Thomist, 1970

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The Problem of Thing and Object in Maritain

Thomist, 1995

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Metaphysics and Immateriality

The New scholasticism, 1983

Remarks on Father Owens's "The Causal Porposition Revisited

The Modern Schoolman, 1967

Causal Realism: An Essay on Philosophical Method and the Foundations of Knowledge

Making Something Out of Nihilation

Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, 1988

Making Something Out of Nihilation

Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, 1988

Causal Realism: An Essay on Philosophical Method and the Foundations of Knowledge

To the Reader of the 2014 revised edition of Causal Realism: The only revisions to the text occur... more To the Reader of the 2014 revised edition of Causal Realism: The only revisions to the text occur in Ch. 1. Since the publication of Causal Realism, I have discussed some of its main themes in places that I recommend as introductions that will help the reader get more out of Causal Realism. On the critique of Hume concerning epistemic causal necessity and causality in general (discussed Sec. 3.4 and from Ch. 7 through Sec. 10.1 of Causal Realism), see "Why Change Needs an Efficient Cause: How Aristotle Could Refute Hume." At www.foraristotelians.info, click on Why Post-Fregean Methods Have Not Reduced Philosophic Disagreement and Paradox.

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Artificial contraception and Abstinence: Reflections on the Human Act

Maritain and Marin-Sola on Predestination: A Reply to Michael Torre

Our colleague Michael Torre has written an extremely well researched article arguing that Maritai... more Our colleague Michael Torre has written an extremely well researched article arguing that Maritain basically got his solution to the problem of God and the permission of evil from Francisco Marin-Sola, O.P., even though he did not credit Marin-Sola. See "Francisco Marin-Sola, O.P., and the Origin of Jacques Maritain's Doctrine on God's Permission of Evil," Nova et Vetera (English edition) vol. 4, 2006, 55-94.

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The Paradoxical Structure of Existence by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

Natural Obligation: How Rationally Known Truth Determines Ethical Good and Evil

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

The Problem of Thing and Object in Maritain

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

Artificial contraception and Abstinence: Reflections on the Human Act

Acta Philosophica Rivista Internazionale Di Filosofia, 2003

Analogy and the Disrepute of Metaphysics

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review

The Paradoxical Structure of Existence by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen