Beyond Necessity

Bill Vallicella has an interesting defence of Meinong here . The statement (1) There are items that have no being is clearly self-contradict...

So Peter Smith couldn't help correcting Wikipedia's entry about the Theory of Descriptions here. I am not sure if his point is ent...

Priscian's Institutiones Grammaticae now available (Latin version only) in the Logic Museum annex. I had ignored Priscian before, think...

A link here to an article in the new Logic Museum about Osmund Lewry, a Dominican who made some outstanding contributions to the history of...

A link to my article about Andrew of Cornwall here in an attempt to discover why Google seems consistently to favour Wikipedia. I created a...

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...