Medieval Modal Logic & Science

Augustine on Scientific Truth and Thomas on its Impossibility Without a First Cause

Robert C. Trundle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

1999
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-1398-9 (ISBN)

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Medieval Modal Logic & Science uses modal reasoning in a new way to fortify the relationships between science, ethics, and politics. Robert C. Trundle accomplishes this by analyzing the role of modal logic in the work of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, then applying these themes to contemporary issues. He incorporates Augustine's ideas involving thought and consciousness, and Aquinas's reasoning to a First Cause. The author also deals with Augustine's ties to Aristotelian modalities of thought regarding science and logic, reassessing the commonly held belief in Augustine's Platonism to not be a mistake as much as a simplistic view of his philosophy. Trundle links contemporary issues in epistemology, morality, theology, and logic, making several useful connections between ancient and medieval studies in modal logic and modern concerns. These applications of modal theory illuminate many puzzles in the works of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Kuhn.

Robert C. Trundle is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Kentucky University.

chapter 1 Augustine: Plato and Aristotelianism
chapter 2 Aristotelian Modal Thought
chapter 3 Critique of Critical Thought
chapter 4 Thinking Matter: Philosopher's God
chapter 5 Theological Modalities and Meaningfulness
chapter 6 Thomas' Realms: Sacred in the Profane
chapter 7 Profane Despair: Preempted by a First Cause?
chapter 8 The Cause from Modally Relevant Experience
chapter 9 Experience to Modal Scientific Reasoning
chapter 10 Reasoning in General Physics and Metaphysics
chapter 11 Afterword: The Alternative in Our Society
chapter 12 A Suggested Kripkean Modal Interpretation
chapter 13 Interpreting an Equivalence
chapter 14 Faith and Reason of a Religious Philosopher
chapter 15 Bibliography
chapter 16 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.1999
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 232 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
ISBN-10	0-7618-1398-5 / 0761813985
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-1398-9 / 9780761813989
Zustand	Neuware