By Eleonore Stump (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Few philosophers or theologians exerted as much influence on the shape of medieval thought as Thomas Aquinas. He ranks amongst the most famous of the Western philosophers and was responsible for almost single-handedly bringing the philosophy of Aristotle into harmony with Christianity. He was also one of the first … Continued
By Gerard Passannante (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history … Continued
By William Barrett (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Traces the development of philosophical thought from the seventeenth century to today, and explores why questions of the soul figure so little in the minds of present-day technocratic intellectuals.
By M. S. Lourenço (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) É conhecida a circunstância de Ludwing Wittgenstein ser o criador de dois sistemas filosóficos diferentes, o primeiro expresso no essencial na sua obra Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus e o segundo em obras diversas como Philosophische Unter suchungen, Bemerkungen uber die Grundlagen der Mathematik e o volume recentemente aparecido sob o … Continued
By Thomas A. Sebeok (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
By Alvin I. Goldman (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) A certain conception of social epistemology is articulated and applied to numerous social arenas. This conception retains epistemology's traditional interest in truth and reliable inquiry, but replaces its customary emphasis on solitary knowers with a focus on social institutions and interpersonal practices. Postmodernism, science studies, and pragmatism pose … Continued
By Bernard Gert (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) For more than thirty years, philosopher Bernard Gert has been developing and refining his distinctive and comprehensive moral theory. His classic work, The Moral Rules: A New Rational Foundation for Morality, was first published in 1970. In 1988, Oxford published a fourth revision titled Morality: A New Justification of the Moral … Continued
By William G. Lycan (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Author William G. Lycan structures the book into four general parts. Part I, Reference and Referring, includes topics such as Russell's Theory … Continued
By Maurice Mandelbaum (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers a broad-ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these concepts have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in … Continued
By F. Edward Cranz (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental reorientation of the categories of thought … Continued