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Od zakładu szatana, przez podstęp Ewy, do naszego skoku: anzelmiańska odpowiedź na problem Bożego ukrycia
No full textWhile St. Anselm does not supply us with an explicit discussion of the problem of divine hiddenness (PDH) as it is typically conceived today—namely, as an argument for atheism—he is keenly aware of the existential difficulty posed by our seeming lack of access to God. Moreover, he provides the ingredients for an interesting and heretofore neglected approach to the PDH, one rooted in multiple Christian narratives about lapses from knowledge-infused states of grace, both angelic and human. The goal of this paper is to draw out that Anselmian approach explicitly, and to provide at least a rudimentary assessment of it.Chociaż u św. Anzelma nie znajdziemy wyraźnej dyskusji na temat problemu Bożego ukrycia (PBU), tak jak jest on dziś powszechnie rozumiany – mianowicie jako argument za ateizmem – to jest on doskonale świadomy trudności egzystencjalnych, jakie stwarza nasz pozorny brak dostępu do Boga. Co więcej, dostarcza on składników dla interesującego i dotychczas zaniedbanego podejścia do PBU, zakorzenionego w wielu chrześcijańskich narracjach o odstępstwach od stanu łaski, zarówno anielskich, jak i ludzkich. Celem tego artykułu jest wyraźne nakreślenie podejścia Anzelma i dostarczenie przynajmniej szczątkowego jego rozwiązania PBU
Dispositionalism and the metaphysics of science
No full text"Dispositionalism is the view that causal powers are among the irreducible properties of nature. It has long been among the core competing positions in the metaphysics of laws, but its potential implications for other key debates within metaphysics and the philosophy of science have remained under-explored. Travis Dumsday fills this major gap in the literature by establishing new connections between dispositionalism and such topics as substance ontology, ontic structural realism, material composition, emergentism, natural-kind essentialism, perdurantism, time travel, and spacetime substantivalism. He also puts forward a novel view concerning the precise relationship between causal powers and the fundamental laws of nature. His rich and accessible study will appeal to readers interested in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science."--Back cove
The Philosophy of Miracles
No full textDr. Travis Dumsday (Concordia University College, Edmonton) will present his research on miracles from a philosophical understanding. He will make a special focus on the problems and questions faced by academic philosophers in interpreting the Christian New Testament accounts of Christ's death and resurrection.Othern
Could God Incarnate as an Animal? : Putting Bonaventure & Aquinas into Dialogue with Wallace’s Christian Animism
No full textIn Mark Wallace’s When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World (Fordham University Press, 2019), two interrelated claims are pursued: (1) that Christianity and animism are complementary; and, (2) that the Holy Spirit literally became incarnate as a bird at Christ’s baptism. In this paper I mostly focus on the second claim, bringing his view into dialogue with those of two mediaeval Scholastics who remain highly influential in Catholic thought: St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas. I examine what they have to say on two questions relevant to assessing Wallace’s striking claim regarding the Spirit’s avian incarnation: first, whether the Holy Spirit could become incarnate at all; and second, the question of whether any divine Person could become incarnate in a non-rational nature
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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