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3 giorni fa · Another criticism raised by Peter Geach is that the dilemma implies you must search for a definition that fits piety rather than work backwards by deciding pious acts (i.e. you must know what piety is before you can list acts which are pious).
2 giorni fa · This interpretation of the arguments has been defended by such influential Thomistic philosophers as Peter Geach , John Lamont , and Christopher Martin . Despite its impressive pedigree, however, the aggregative approach is little talked-about today, 1 a situation which I hope to help rectify.
12 lug 2024 · The philosopher Peter Geach, who perhaps most powerfully made the argument, calls this a “Cambridge change,” named after the Cambridge University philosophers to whom he was responding. Here’s how it works: suppose a son grows up and ends up becoming taller than his father.
8 lug 2024 · I argue for an account of creativity that unifies creative achievements in the arts, sciences, and other domains and identifies its characteristic value. This account draws upon case studies of creative ...
3 giorni fa · Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (/ ˈ s t r ɔː s ən /; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1968 to 1987.
3 giorni fa · OXFORD, England — Professor Luke Gormally, who died April 30 at the age of 83, was a towering figure who was respected and admired for his personal integrity, courage and tireless defense of life at a time when the “culture of death” was taking root in the West.
16 lug 2024 · The Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft has phrased the argument from desire as follows: Every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy that desire. But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time, nothing on earth, no creature can satisfy.
