Pub Date : 2021-04-24DOI: 10.5840/ACPAPROC2021423113
J. Mattingly
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Pub Date : 2021-04-24DOI: 10.5840/ACPAPROC2021423114
John G. Brungardt
Do advances in the natural sciences leave the followers of Aristotle and Aquinas without a cosmos? Is their natural philosophy irrelevant to modern cosmology and its Big Bang theory? The following essay answers these questions and argues that natural philosophy is perennially relevant to cosmology. It defends the idea that Aristotelian-Thomistic natural philosophy reaches a true, general definition of the universe: the unity of order of all mobile beings according to place, duration, and agent causality. The essay defends this conclusion while answering three opposing views, those of Jonathan Schaffer, Peter Simons, and Immanuel Kant. The true account is attained through reasoning about the nature of place, duration, and agent causality. Objections against these lines of argument are answered to clarify their continued relevance. Since it provides even our modern scientific cosmology with the necessarily assumed notion of the universe, Aristotelian-Thomistic natural philosophy is perennially relevant to cosmology.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-23DOI: 10.5840/ACPAPROC2021422112
T. Kearns
Beginning from the apparent failure of Aristotelian natural philosophy in the last centuries, I propose key questions internal to that tradition, most importantly this: Are the central theses of Aristotelian natural philosophy true and do they continue to contribute to our knowledge of the natural world in light of modern discoveries in the sciences? In this paper, I answer this question affirmatively by drawing on the most general mathematical theory used in the sciences to study natural change. I propose an Aristotelian extension of that theory to include substantial change. With such an extension, it becomes possible to see the physical aspect of substantial form, the role that each natural thing plays in making the cosmos what it is. Understood this way, substantial form allows the cosmos itself to be seen in a new way, one that integrates modern scientific discoveries with an Aristotelian approach to nature.
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{"title":"Presentation of the Aquinas Medal","authors":"Angela Knobel","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc2020942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc2020942","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc202094144
J. Haldane
{"title":"Beauty before Aesthetics, and Aesthetics after Beauty","authors":"J. Haldane","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc202094144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc202094144","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc202094134
T. Phillipson
{"title":"Averroes’s Tahafut al-Tahafut, The Third Discussion","authors":"T. Phillipson","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc202094134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc202094134","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc202094143
Joseph Gamache
{"title":"Epistemic Relations Between Goodness and Value","authors":"Joseph Gamache","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc202094143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc202094143","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc202094147
{"title":"American Catholic Philosophical Association Treasurer’s Report (2019)","authors":"","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc202094147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc202094147","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anselm on Truth and Truth-telling","authors":"Katherin A. Rogers","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc2020943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc2020943","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capax Veritatis: Against Student-Commodification","authors":"T. Cavanaugh","doi":"10.5840/acpaproc2020941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc2020941","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":82372,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71107483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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