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Book SynopsisThis volume examines a selection of late medieval works devoted to the intensive infinite in order to draw a comprehensive picture of the context, character and importance of scholastic efforts to reason philosophically about divine infinity. As Dominican masters face Franciscan 'spirituals' and as university-trained theologians face evangelical laymen, the purpose and meaning of divine infinity shift, reflecting a basic tension between the Church's Petrine vocation for geopolitical orthodoxy and its more Pauline mission to promote Christian orthopraxis. The first part of the book traces the scholastic defense of divine infinity from the holocaust of Montségur up to John Duns Scotus. The second part examines the semiotic breakthrough initiated by William of Ockham and the subsequent penetration of infinist theory into a wide variety of disciplines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. In the Shadow of Montsegur 2. Thomas Aquinas and the Six-Winged Seraph 3. Infinity and Totality in Henry of Ghent 4. Barefoot for an Infinite God 5. Spiritual Sword and Spiritual Quanta 6. Mirrors and Signs - the Modern Way to Infinity (I) 7. Mirrors and Signs - the Modern Way to Infinity (II) Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis work represents a guided tour to the interdisciplinary, integrated study of time. Through twenty-two connected essays, selected from the author's extensive writings, Time and Time Again advances new insights into understanding the nature of time seen through philosophy, the arts and letters, the sciences of matter, life, mind and society. Traditionally, attitudes to future, past, and present remained distinct for different cultures. But upon the globalizing earth, all cultural regions are now in instant by instant communication. There is a consequent turmoil about individual and collective identities and about value judgments, in all of which attitudes to time play crucial roles. The book explores this turmoil and, through its references, it also serves as a guide to the broadly spread literature about time.Trade Review'"Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe" deserves to be regarded as a canonical work for humankind's journey into the 21st century. Like Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game master, Julius Thomas Fraser plays with the Study of Time with intellectual rigor and lyrical beauty. ' (B. Caithness)Table of ContentsThe Whir and the Bell 1. The change ringing cosmos COMPLEXITY AND ITS MEASURE 2 From timelessness to time OUT OF PLATO’S CAVE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TIME 3. Reality as examined appearances THE EXTENDED UMWELT PRINCIPLE 4. What kind of a universe to expect MATHEMATICS AND TIME 5. The beginning or origin of time THE SECULAR MYSTERY OF THE FIRST DAY 6. Contraining chaos FROM CHAOS TO CONFLICT 7. Those metaphysical devices CLOCKWORKS BEYOND THEMSELVES 8. How to use a clock SPACE-TIME IN THE STUDY OF TIME 9. Coordinated clock shops TIME AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 10. From puppy love to faithful love TEMPORAL LEVELS: A FUNDAMENTAL SYNTHESIS 11. Logos at the edge of the cosmos TEMPORAL LEVELS AND REALITY TESTING 12. Unbounding society TIME, INFINITY, AND THE WORLD IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT 13. That awesome gift HUMAN FREEDOM 14. Opiates that civilize TIME FELT, TIME UNDERSTOOD 15. How to perpetuate conflicts CHANGE, PERMANENCE, AND HUMAN VALUES 16. The true TRUTH AS A RECOGNITION OF PERMANENCE 17. Music do I hear? HOMER, BORGES, AND THE PIED PIPER. 18 A different wonder THE PROBLEMS OF EXPORTING FAUST 19. Being a one-and-only TIME, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE NASCENT IDENTITY OF MANKIND 20. Turmoil at the anthill threshold HAMLET’S CASTLE IN CYBERSPACE 21. Whose past is our prologue? REFLECTIONS UPON AN EVOLVING MIRROR 22 Expanding the universe

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Book SynopsisThe nature and existence of time is a fascinating and puzzling feature of human life and awareness. This book integrates interdisciplinary work and approaches from such fields as physics, psychology, biology, phenomenology, and technology studies with philosophical analyses and considerations to explain a number of facets of the perennnial question of time's nature and existence, both in contemporary and in its initial classical Greek context; and it then explores and explains two of the most influential investigations of time in classical Western thought: Aristotle's, as presented in his Physics, and the (neo)Platonist Plotinus' in his treatise On Time and Eternity. Original interpretative perspectives are argued in both cases, and special attention is paid to Plotinus as partly responding to and critiquing Aristotle's account.

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Book SynopsisAnthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.Trade ReviewA “scintillating collection” and a “generous Kunstkammer of a book.” Martha Hollander, Hofstra University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 255-256.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE ORDER OF THINGS Delineating the Boundaries of the Human 1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt Anne-Laure van Bruaene 2 Monkey in the Middle Christina Normore 3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel Paul J. Smith 4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World Miya Tokumitsu Empathy and the Constitution of the Self 5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed Nathalie de Brézé 6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art Marisa Bass 7 The ‘Album Αmicorum’ and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq Aneta Georgievska-Shine Visualizing the Body Politic 8 Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible Pamela Merrill Brekka 9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the ‘Carrara Herbal’ Sarah R. Kyle 10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse Elke Anna Werner FIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIAL Anthropomorphosis and Its Critics 11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600 Walter S. Melion 12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol Ralph Dekoninck Anthropomorphosis and Its Conditions 13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance Elizabeth J. Petcu 14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture Bertrand Prévost Figuring the Impossible 15 Nobody’s Bruegel Christopher P. Heuer 16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel Larry Silver Metamorphic Figuration 17 Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of Parody Bret L. Rothstein 18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery’s ‘Sacrifice of Cain and Abel’ for Louis Richeome’s ‘Tableaux Sacrez’ (1601) Michel Weemans Index Nominum List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisBased on the philosophy of Michel Henry, the contributions of the anthology “Immanenz und Einheit” give different phenomenological and metaphysical foundations of the relation between immanence and unity, examine its perspectives for philosophy of religion and analyse its ethical consequences. Ausgehend vom Werk Michel Henrys geben die in der Festschrift „Immanenz und Einheit“ gesammelten Beiträge phänomenologische und metaphysische Grundlegegungen für das Verhältnis zwischen Immanenz und Einheit und untersuchen die religionsphilosophischen Perspektiven und ethischen Konsequenzen, die sich aus diesem Verhältnis ergeben.Table of ContentsGrußwort Vorwort I.METAPHYSISCHE UND PHÄNOMENOLOGISCHE GRUNDLAGEN Immanenz und Transzendenz einer absoluten Einheit im Raum der abendländischen Metaphysik Markus Enders Le monisme ontologique selon Michael Henry Jean-François Lavigne Autoaffection et passion primordiale Miguel García-Baró Attention et subjectivation. D’une réduction «contre-pathétique» Marc Maesschalck II.RELIGIONSPHILOSOPHISCHE KONSEQUENZEN Maître Eckhart, phénoménologue de l’unité Jean Reaidy Das Absolute als Einheit bei Fichte und Henry Frédéric Seyler Christianisme et christologie immanente. De la phénoménologie de la vie à la théologie Antoine Vidalin Östliche Leere. śūnyatā im Hinduismus und im indischen Buddhismus Adrian Navigante III.ETHISCHE PERSPEKTIVEN „Lebensführung” und „Lebensethos”- zur Frage ethischer Vermittlung bei Trutz Rendtorff und Michel Henry Francine Charoy Unité esthétique de l’existence vivante Jean Leclercq „Unmittelbare Selbstgebung“ und „immanente Narrativität“ als Einheit des Erscheinens von Leben und Welt Rolf Kühn Index

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Book SynopsisSmilen Markov’s monograph on the metaphysical synthesis of John Damascene depicts a paradox ontological structure: the single man, whose ontological position is conditioned by non-being, participates in the life of the Origin of being. The term ‘historical interconnections’ denotes the basic elements of Damascene’s reception strategy through which he approaches the Holy Scripture and the tradition of the fathers. The structural transformation to which different epochs and cultural circles put Damascene’s concepts reveals regularity in understanding the intellectual scope of the Palestinian monk. The reception of his thought could serve as an indicator for the stable mental structures, ‘framing’ the epoch turning-points in European culture for at least six centuries.Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort ix Abkürzungsverzeichnis xi Einführung 1 1 Der Autor 1 2 Die Werke 3 3 Stand der Forschung 6 4 Fragestellung 9 5 Methode 9 6 Struktur der Untersuchung 15 teil 1 Die Struktur des metaphysischen Systems des Damascenus 1 Erkenntniskonzept, Philosophiebegriff und Begriffsapparat 19 1 Methodologische Bemerkungen 19 2 Die Urbilder der Schrift ‚Dialectica‘ 20 3 Die ‚Institutio elementaris‘ – die philosophischen Konzepte 25 4 Das Buch ‚Dialectica‘ 33 5 Der Philosophiebegriff 42 6 Der Begriffsapparat 49 Schluss 81 2 Gotteserkenntnis und metaphysische Methode 84 1 Das Werk ‚De haeresibus‘ 85 2 Die metaphysische Methode 99 3 Die hypostatische Selbstheit als metaphysisches Problem 120 4 Die Trinität 132 Schluss 145 3 Anthropologische Themen bei Johannes Damascenus 147 1 Νόησις als anthropologischer und gnoseologischer Begriff 147 2 Lust als natürliche Wirkung und hypostatische Relation 165 3 Das Bildsystem 179 Schluss 201 4 Das Willenskonzept des Johannes Damascenus 203 1 Der Wille als Äußerung der hypostatischen Identität 204 2 Der Wille als Grenze des Eschatons 236 Schluss 255 Epilog des ersten Teils 257 teil 2 Die Rezeption des metaphysischen Systems des Johannes Damascenus Einführung zu Teil 2 261 5 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der arabischen Welt und in Byzanz 262 1 Die Rezeption bei Theodor Abū Qurra 262 2 Die Rezeption des Johannes Damascenus durch den Patriarchen Photios den Großen 275 3 Die Rezeption bei Michael Psellos 298 6 Die Damascenus-Rezeption bei Gregorios Palamas 316 1 Die Rezeption in der Epistemologie 319 2 Trinitätslehre 329 3 ‚Energie‘ als Begriff der kataphatischen Theologie 337 4 Das Modell der Enhypostasierung 344 5 Die Vergöttlichung des Menschen 348 Schluss 363 7 Die Damascenus-Rezeption bei Petrus Lombardus 364 1 Ein Versuch der ‚Entmetaphysizierung‘ der Triadologie 366 2 Die Rezeption in der Christologie 375 8 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der ‚Summa theologiae‘ des Thomas von Aquin 391 1 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der Triadologie 391 2 Die Damascenus-Rezeption in der Christologie 403 3 Die Willenskonzepte des Thomas und des Johannes 417 Schluss 426 Epilog des zweiten Teils 428 Versuch einer Bilanz 431 Schemata 439 Zitierte und benutzte Sekundärliteratur 446 Namensregister 453 Sachregister 456 Contents v Acknowledgments vii Acknowledgments vii List of Figures

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Book SynopsisCognitive existentialism is a version of hermeneutic philosophy. The volume provides a summation of the critical approaches to this version. All essays are engaged in probing the value of universal hermeneutics. Drawing on various conceptions developed in analytical and Continental traditions, the authors explore the interpretative dimensions of scientific inquiry. They try to place the projects of their investigations in historical, socio-cultural, and political contexts. The task of extending hermeneutics to the natural sciences is an initiative of much relevance to the dialogue between the scientific and humanistic culture. A special aspect of this dialogue, addressed by all authors, is the promotion of interpretive reflexivity in both kinds of academic culture.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Road to Cognitive Existentialism, EMIL LENSKY ONE On the Status of Theoretical Objects in Science according to Cognitive Existentialism, ARVIN VOS TWO Theory and Theoretical Objects in an Existential/Hermeneutic Conception of Science, ROBERT CREASE THREE Practice Theories: Scientific Charms, Divine Spells, EVALDAS JUOZELIS FOUR Rejecting Cartesian Cuts: Choosing Sellars over Ginev’s Heidegger, FABIO GIRONI FIVE Scientific Practice and Modes of Epistemic Existence, JEFF KOCHAN SIX The Unfinished Project of Cognitive Existentialism, DIMITRI GINEV ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisThemes from Ontology, Mind and Logic celebrates Peter Simons’s admirable career. The book contains seventeen essays with themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology. The contributions by Fabrice Correia, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, Ingvar Johansson, Kathrin Koslicki, Uriah Kriegel, Wolfgang Künne, Edgar Morscher, Kevin Mulligan, Maria Elisabeth Reicher, Maria van der Schaar, Benjamin Schnieder, Johanna Seibt, Ted Sider, David Woodruff Smith, Mark Textor and Jan Woleński, tackle the problems that defined Simons’s work and insights into some of today’s most interesting and significant philosophical questions.Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Ontology Fabrice CORREIA: Logical Grounding and First-Degree Entailments Ingvar JOHANSSON: Collections as One-and-Many—On the Nature of Numbers Kathrin KOSLICKI: In Defense of Substance Uriah KRIEGEL: How to Speak of Existence: A Brentanian Approach to (Linguistic and Mental) Ontological Commitment Maria Elisabeth REICHER: Computer-generated Music, Authorship, and Work Identity Benjamin SCHNIEDER: The Asymmetry of ‘Because’ Johanna SEIBT: Non-Transitive Parthood, Leveled Mereology, and the Representation of Emergent Parts of Processes Ted SIDER: Nothing Over and Above David WOODRUFF SMITH: On Basic Modes of Being: Metametaphysical Refl ections in Light of Whitehead, Husserl, Ingarden, Hintikka Part II: Mind Kevin MULLIGAN,: Annehmen, Phantasieren und Entertaining. Husserl und Meinong Mark TEXTOR: Meaning, Entertaining, and Phantasy Judgement Maria VAN DER SCHAAR: Th e Th ings We Call True Part III: Logic Bob HALE & Crispin WRIGHT: Bolzano’s Defi nition of Analytic Propositions Wolfgang KÜNNE: On Having a Property. Corrigenda in Bolzano’s Wissenschaftslehre Edgar MORSCHER: Th e Logic of Truth Jan WOLEŃSKI: An Analysis of Logical Determinism

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Book SynopsisKazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School with its strong tradition in logic and its scientific approach to philosophy. Twardowski’s unique way of doing philosophy, his method, is of central importance for understanding his impact as a teacher. This method can be understood as a philosophical grammar, which is also how Leibniz conceived his universal language of thought. Analytic philosophy in the twentieth century can be characterized by its opposition to psychologism, on the one hand, and its opposition to metaphysics, on the other. This is changing now, as questions within the philosophy of mind and metaphysics are raised by analytic philosophers today. Maria van der Schaar shows in her book that we can improve our analytic methods by making use of Twardowski’s philosophical grammar. Twardowski’s positive attitude to psychology and metaphysics may also help us to develop an analytic metaphysics and to get a better understanding of the relation between psychology and philosophy.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Twardowski as A Pupil and A Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2. Questions of Method. From Descriptive Psychology to Philosophical Grammar . 16 1. Descriptive Psychology . 16 2. A Philosophical Grammar . 24 3. The Grammatical Distinction Between Internal and External Object . 32 4. Modifying Terms . 35 3. Content and Object. From Psychology to Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1. The Distinction between Content and Object . 50 2. The Content of the Act . 55 3. The Object of the Act . 59 From Psychology to Metaphysics . 59 Husserl’s Reaction to Twardowski’s Account of Intentionality . 61 Metaphysics and Mereology . 68 General Objects . 74 4. Images and Concepts . 80 4. Judgement and Meaning. ON Actions and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 1. The Historical Background of Twardowski’s Theory of Judgement . 84 2. Some Conceptual Distinctions . 91 3. A Development in Twardowski’s Early Account of Judgement . 97 4. Actions and Products . 103 5. Twardowski’s Critique of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement . 113 5. Knowing and Prejudice. An Educational Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  117 1. Some Conceptual Distinctions . 117 2. Brentano and Bolzano on Knowledge . 119 3. Knowledge, Science and the Cognitive Act . 122 4. Prejudice and the Critical Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 6. Truth and Time. Twardowski’s Impact on his Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  129 1. The Correspondence Definition of Truth . 129 2. The Absoluteness of Truth and the Logical Principles . 135 3. Determinism and the Relativity of Truth to Time . 150 Truth and Time . 150 Jan Łukasiewicz . 152 Tadeusz Kotarbiński . 154 Leśniewski’s and Twardowski’s Reaction to Kotarbiński . 157 Conclusion . 160 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  163 Name Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  171

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Book SynopsisThe book Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics offers various perspectives on the relation and mutual influence between modern physical theories and analytic metaphysics. The authors of the contributions are philosophers of science, physicists and metaphysicians of international renown, and their work represents the cutting edge in modern metaphysics of physical sciences.Table of ContentsTomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich: Introduction. Steven French and Kerry McKenzie: Rethinking Outside the Toolbox: Reflecting Again on the Relationship between Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics. Douglas Kutach: Ontology: An Empirical Fundamentalist Approach. Vincent Lam: Quantum Structure and Spacetime. Dean Rickles and Jessica Bloom: Things Ain’t What They Used to Be. Physics Without Objects . Olimpia Lombardi and Dennis Dieks: Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties. Tomasz Bigaj: Essentialism and Modern Physics . Thomas Møller-Nielsen: Symmetry and Qualitativity. Matteo Morganti: Relational Time. Antonio Vassallo: General Covariance, Diffeomorphism Invariance, and Background Independence in 5 Dimensions. Ioan Muntean: A Metaphysics from String Dualities: Pluralism, Fundamentalism, Modality. Adam Caulton: Is Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions. Andreas Hüttemann: Physicalism and the Part-Whole Relation. Jessica Wilson: Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong. Mauro Dorato and Michael Esfeld: The Metaphysics of Laws: Dispositionalism vs. Primitivism. Marek Kuś: Classical and Quantum Sources of Randomness. Jeremy Butterfield and Nazim Bouatta: Renormalization for Philosophers.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume explore the nature of time, our God-given medium of ascent, known, as Augustine puts it, through the ordered study of the “liberal disciplines that carry the mind to the divine (disciplinae liberales intellectum efferunt ad divina)”: grammar and dialectic, for example, to promote thinking; geometry and astronomy to grasp the dimensions of our reality; music, an invisible substance like time itself, as an exemplary bridge to the unseen substance of thoughts, ideas, and the nature of God (theology). This ascending course of study rests on procedure, progress, and attainment — on before, following, and afterwards — whose goal is an ascending erudition that lets us finally contemplate, as Augustine says in De ordine, our invisible medium — time — within time itself: time is immaterial, but experienced as substantial. The essays here look at projects that chronicle time “from the beginning,” that clarify ideas of creation “in time” and “simultaneous times,” and the interrelationships between measured time and eternity, including “no-time.” Essays also examine time as revealed in social and political contexts, as told by clocks, as notated in music and embodied in memorializing stone. In the final essays of this volume, time is understood as the subject and medium of consciousness. As Adrian Bardon says, “time is not so much a ‘what’ as a ‘how’”: a solution to “organizing experience and modeling events.” Contributors are (in order within the volume) Jesse W. Torgerson, Ken A. Grant, Danielle B. Joyner, Nancy van Deusen, Peter Casarella, Aaron Canty, Jordan Kirk, Vera von der Osten-Sacken, Gerhard Jaritz, Jason Aleksander, Sara E. Melzer, Mark Howard, Andrew Eschelbacher, Hans J. Rindisbacher, James F. Knapp, Peggy A. Knapp, Raymond Knapp, Michael Cole, Ike Kamphof and Leonard Michael Koff.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Abbreviations ix List of Contributors xi Introduction 1 1 Time and Again: Early Medieval Chronography and the Recurring Holy First-Created Day of George Synkellos 18 Jesse W. Torgerson 2 Registering Rome: The Eternal City Through the Eyes of Pope Gregory vii 58 Ken A. Grant 3 Building Block of Times, Knowledge and Wisdom in the Hortus deliciarum 78 Danielle B. Joyner 4 Simultaneous Times: Synderesis and its Musical Exemplification 112 Nancy van Deusen 5 Trinity, Simultaneity, and the Music of Creation in St. Bonaventure 141 Peter Casarella 6 Hugh of St. Cher and Thomas Aquinas: Time and the Interpretation of the Psalms 160 Aaron Canty 7 Walter Burley on the Time of Unknowing 177 Jordan Kirk 8 Theological and Social Time: The Case of the Beguines 201 Vera von der Osten-Sacken 9 Medieval Mechanical Clocks 212 Gerhard Jaritz 10 Providence, Temporal Authority, and the Illustrious Vernacular in Dante’s Political Philosophy 231 Jason Aleksander 11 Time, Myth and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns: Racine and Fontenelle 261 Sara E. Melzer 12 Time and Space as Manipulated Materials in Rameau’s Les Cyclopes 284 Mark Howard 13 Resisting Death’s Finality: Jules Dalou’s Blanqui Tomb and the Dialectics of Memorialization 299 Andrew Eschelbacher 14 End of Story: Closed Form and Open Time 314 Hans J. Rindisbacher 15 Time and the Self in Virginia Woolf and Richard Powers 331 James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp 16 Temporality and Control in Sondheim’s Middle Period: From Company to Sunday in the Park with George 352 Raymond Knapp 17 Remembering the Future 375 Michael Cole 18 “Real Time”. On the Whereabouts of Time in New Media: The Case of Webcams 388 Ike Kamphof 19 No-Time in Non-Places 411 Leonard Michael Koff Index 457

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Book SynopsisEdited and introduced by Robert Arp, Revisiting Aquinas’ Proofs for the Existence of God is a collection of new papers written by scholars focusing on the famous Five Proofs or Ways (Quinque Viae) for the existence of God put forward by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) near the beginning of his unfinished tome, Summa Theologica. It is not an exaggeration to say that not only is Aquinas’ Summa a landmark text in the history of Western philosophy and Christianity, but also that the Five Proofs discussed therein—namely, the arguments that conclude to the Unmoved Mover, Uncaused Cause, Necessary Being, Superlative Being, and Intelligent Director—are as compelling today as they were in the 13th Century. Written in a debate format with different scholars arguing for and against each Proof, the papers in the book consist of arguments utilizing various combinations of contemporary science and philosophical ideas to bolster the positions. The result is a revisiting of Aquinas’ Proofs that is relevant, stimulating, enlightening, and refreshing.Table of ContentsCONTENTS EDITORIAL FOREWORD KENNETH A. BRYSON INTRODUCTION ROBERT ARP THE FIRST PROOF One: A Motion to Reconsider: A Defense of Aquinas' Prime Mover Argument for the Existence of God HEATHER THORNTON MCRAE AND JAMES MCRAE Two: The Prime Mover Removed: A Contemporary Critique of Aquinas' Prime Mover Argument RICHARD GEENEN AND ROGER HUNT Three: A Response to Geenen and Hunt HEATHER THORNTON MCRAE AND JAMES MCRAE Four: A Response to McRae and McRae RICHARD GEENEN AND ROGER HUNT THE SECOND PROOF Five: The Relevance of Aquinas' Uncaused Cause Argument GAVEN KERR, OP Six: The Irrelevance of Aquinas' Uncaused Cause Argument HERB ROSEMAN Seven: A Response to Roseman GAVEN KERR, OP Eight: A Response to Kerr HERBERT ROSEMAN THE THIRD PROOF Nine: From Contingency to Necessary Being ADAM BARKMAN Ten: Problems with Aquinas' Third Way EDWARD MOAD Eleven: A Response to Moad ADAM BARKMAN Twelve: A Response to Barkman EDWARD MOAD THE FOURTH PROOF Thirteen: A Fourth Way to Prove God's Existence DAVID BECK Fourteen: Not So Superlative: The Fourth Way as Comparatively Problematic BENJAMIN W. MCCRAW Fifteen: A Response to McCraw EDWARD N. MARTIN Sixteen: A Response to Beck BENJAMIN W. MCCRAW THE FIFTH PROOF Seventeen: Aquinas' Fifth Way and the Possibility of Science MICHAEL HAYES Eighteen: Science and Nature without God KEVIN S. DECKER Nineteen: A Response to Decker MICHAEL HAYES Twenty: A Response to Hayes KEVIN S. DECKER WORKS CITED ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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