Hello! I'm new to Blogger, and am not really sure how this blog will turn out. I've been doing some thinking recently on arguments for Divine Unicity, so I might put out a post or two thereupon soon. For all those who might be interested, I am an undergrad living in Chicago interested mainly in philosophy. I am presently reading J. L. Mackie's The Miracle of Theism and Kathrin Koslicki's The Structure of Objects (both quite good, so far) and have Georg Cantor's Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers, Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity, and Bl. John Duns Scotus' Philosophical Writings (Hackett) waiting for me once I finish those two. I am a (poorly) practising Roman Catholic and (try) to take a Thomistic position in enquiries philosophical and theological, so expect posts of a corresponding nature. In any case, thanks for reading this and enjoy the rest of your day!
Ah, good to see you come out of the comments into full light of day. I look forward to reading.
ReplyDeleteHey Leo. I'll be following your blog. Are you majoring in philosophy? You've got some good stuff up there on your reading list. Also, we'll have to remove that "poorly" qualifier to "practicing Catholic". ;-) Best.
ReplyDeleteMy school does not offer majors, so no, but I would were I able. Have you read Mackie and Koslicki, too?
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Leo :)
I haven't read The Miracle of Theism yet (though it's on my reading list). I also haven't read Koslicki's book. I'm waiting to get it on inter-library loan. She has some pretty good papers. As you said, she's much more historically-oriented than most modern metaphysics people.
ReplyDeleteThe Miracle is quite good, actually, at least compared to most works written from the same point of view. His discussion of Aquinas is, admittedly, lacking, not least of all because he dismisses the first and second ways completely out of hand.
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I would recommend "Varieties of Ontological Dependence" and "Essence, Necessity, and Explanation". There is much to disagree with in these papers, but I'd agree with the general approach.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/fac_koslicki.shtml
Before all of this though, if you haven't gone through it already, Kit Fine's paper "Essence and Modality" is a must read. Have fun!
I will definitely check out the articles. Funny that you should mention Fine: I just came across an interesting chapter of his in the Cambridge Companion to Husserl devoted to Husserl's mereology. I'll alert you as to how good it is once I've read it.
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