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American Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1):14 - 26 (1966)

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The metaphysics of the idea of God in ibn Taymiyya's thought.ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm Ajhar - unknowndetails This dissertation deals with Ibn Taymiyya's theory of the unity of God and of creation, or, as Muslim philosophers have posited the question, the relation between the oneness of God and the diversity that has come out of it. Indeed, Ibn Taymiyya responded to the same ontological question that earlier Muslim philosophers were concerned to answer. Although Ibn Taymiyya was a theologian, he did not encounter quite the same questions as the early kalam theologian whose concern it was to prove (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Action, causality, and teleology.Ruth Macklin - 1969 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (4):301-316.details Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
(1 other version)Hume on Liberty and Necessity.Godfrey Vesey - 1986 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 20:111-127.details David Hume (1711–1776) described the question of liberty and necessity as ‘the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science’ (Hume [1748] 1975, p. 95). He was right about it being contentious. Whether it is metaphysical is another matter. I think that what is genuinely metaphysical is an assumption that Hume, and a good many other philosophers, make in their treatment of the question. The assumption is about language and reality. I call it ‘the conformity assumption’. But more about (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
(1 other version)Preface.Godfrey Vesey - 1986 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 20:111-127.details David Hume (1711–1776) described the question of liberty and necessity as ‘the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science’ (Hume [1748] 1975, p. 95). He was right about it being contentious. Whether it is metaphysical is another matter. I think that what is genuinely metaphysical is an assumption that Hume, and a good many other philosophers, make in their treatment of the question. The assumption is about language and reality. I call it ‘the conformity assumption’. But more about (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
(2 other versions)Free Will.Godfrey Vesey - 1988 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 24:85-119.details As a rule we treat people as responsible for what they do. We admonish them if they behave badly, praise them if they do well. We punish people. And we reward them.There are exceptions, of course. For example, we do not punish someone for doing something he has been compelled to do, perhaps by having a gun in his back. And we even recognize such a thing as psychological compulsion, as in the case of kleptomania. Download Export citation Bookmark
(2 other versions)Free Will: Responsibility and 'Free Will'.Godfrey Vesey - 1988 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 24:85-100.details As a rule we treat people as responsible for what they do. We admonish them if they behave badly, praise them if they do well. We punish people. And we reward them.There are exceptions, of course. For example, we do not punish someone for doing something he has been compelled to do, perhaps by having a gun in his back. And we even recognize such a thing as psychological compulsion, as in the case of kleptomania. Download Export citation Bookmark

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