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Tag Archives: Edward Feser’s Scholastic Metaphysics
Feser’s The Last Superstition on the Manner of Existence of the Final Cause
0. In “Aristotelian Realism in the Theory of Universals of Feser’s The Last Superstition,” my post of February 17, 2015, I continued my discussion of the problem of universals. In that post I took as my point of departure Edward Feser’s … Continue reading →
Feser on Faith in The Last Superstition 1: Pure Reason and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
1. I first read Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition* a few years ago, as part of an earlier effort at understanding Thomas Aquinas’s attempts at proving the existence of God. Then, however, for a variety of reasons, I relegated that … Continue reading →
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A Distinction between Scientisms
In the opening chapter, “0,” of his Scholastic Metaphysics. A Contemporary Introduction,* Edward Feser tells us (pp. 9-10) that Of course, not every contemporary analytic philosopher welcomes the revival of old-fashioned metaphysics. There are those who decry it in the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alex Rosenberg, Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist’s Guide to Reality, Barbara, categorical propositions, Edward Feser, Edward Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics, Exclusivist Scientism, Philosophism (Tout Court), Scientism, Scientism (Tout Court )
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A Bit of a Critique of a Feser Critique of “Scientism”
1. In his Scholastic Metaphysics. A Contemporary Introduction* (p. 10 ff.), Edward Feser identifies four “general problems” he sees facing “scientism,” the thesis that (pp. 9-10) “…science alone plausibly gives us objective knowledge.” The first problem is that (p. 10): … Continue reading →
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