ANALYTICAL THOMISM: TRADITIONS IN DIALOGUE; ED. BY CRAIG PATERSON

Analytical Thomism is a recent label for a newer kind of approach to the philosophical and natural theology of St Thomas Aquinas. It illuminates the meaning of Aquinas’s work for contemporary problems by drawing on the resources of contemporary Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy, the work of Frege, Wittgenstein, and Kripke proving particularly significant. This book expands the discourse in contemporary debate, exploring crucial philosophical, theological and ethical issues such as: metaphysics and epistemology, the nature of God, personhood, action and meta-ethics. All those interested in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, and more generally contemporary Catholic scholarship, problems in philosophy of religion, and contemporary metaphysics, will find this collection an invaluable resource. Cover Half Title Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction to Analytical Thomism 1 Aquinas, God and Being 2 Thoughts Addressed to an Analytical Thomist 3 Three Theological Appropriations of Analytic-Philosophical Readings of Thomas Aquinas 4 Aquinas and Searle on Singular Thoughts 5 Causal Relations: a Thomistic Account 6 Instantaneous Change without Instants 7 Aquinas’s Teleological Libertarianism 8 Medieval Theories of Intentionality: from Aquinas to Brentano and Beyond 9 Aquinas, Finnis and Non-Naturalism 10 Wittgenstein as a Gateway to Analytical Thomism 11 On Analytical Thomism 12 The Resistance of Thomism to Analytical and Other Patronage 13 Haldane’s Analytic Thomism and Aquinas’s Actus Essendi 14 God and Persons 15 Kenny on Being in Aquinas 16 G. E. M. Anscombe and Thomas Aquinas on Necessity and Contradiction in Temporal Events Afterword: Analytical Thomism: How We Got Here, Why It Is Worth Remaining and Where We May Go Next Select Bibliography Index Explores philosophical, theological and ethical issues such as: metaphysics and epistemology, proofs for and nature of God, personhood, action and meta-ethics. This book is suitable for those interested in the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, contemporary Catholic scholarship, problems in philosophy of religion, and contemporary metaphysics.