Beyond Necessity

Alan Rhoda has been defending the idea that there must be some necessary connection between the present and the future in order for proposi...

The strange arguments continue in my comments box below and I continue to be mystified. One of the 'objectivists' there claimed that...

I mentioned in this post last year that I was working on Scotus' discussion of the problem of future contingents, in his Questions on t...

I was going to follow up the previous post on Rand with a few comments but Triablogue beat me to it. There are also some excellent comments...

Was Ayn Rand a philosopher? That is the question now being taken to the important mediation committee of Wikipedia. There is currently a di...

A new set of pages in the Logic Museum (index here ) consisting of Boethius' translation (from Greek to Latin) of Aristotle's 'O...

Wow, great page [Logic Museum]. I'm a philosophy student and have had a long and abiding interest in the medieval period and especially ...

There is a very fine argument in Ockham's Summa Logicae book II, chapter 4. He is objecting to the claim that the verb 'to be' ...

Another parallel translation in the Logic Museum: Cicero's commentary on Aristotle's Topics

Here are three quotations on the nature of philosophy (or 'metaphysics') that have something in common. They are all from the eighte...

My argument again. The following formally expressed statements are inconsistent. 1. (E x) number(x) 2. (x) number(x) implies not created(x) ...

Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism . Jody Azzouni, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 I haven't got hold of a...

Vlastimil Vohanka has drawn my attention to an article by the American theologian William Lane Craig, which deserves a separate post. Craig...

Questions 106-110 , Questions 111-114 , and Questions 115-119 of Part I of the Summa now available in the Logic Museum. This brings us to ...

I am translating Scotus' questions on Aristotle's On Interpretation (the Peryhermenias ) and have reached the part where he discuss...

Here is a case where the position I have argued for seems to be uncontroversially true. Consider (A) The earth was created around 6,000 year...

Tanas objects: “Not sure I understand what existential conservativism would amount to. Wouldn't you agree that there is a detective in A...

Following Brightly's point in the last post, here is a link to a translation of a work by William of Ockham (the other one) that I mad...

Brandon (who has an excellent and praiseworthy internet residence called Siris ) asks whether "Does writing [a fiction about a planet) ...

Questions 103-5 of the Summa in parallel Latin-English now available in the Logic Museum Annex .