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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ignacio silva”
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  • Thomism and the Natural Sciences

    by Ignacio Silva ...
    Series series Elements of Christianity and Science
    This Element argues for a novel approach to the sciences within Thomism, namely, science-engaged Thomism, which, aligned with the recent science-engaged theology movement, asks theological and metaphysical questions that require the input of the natural sciences. Recent developments within Thomism show a new approach to the natural sciences, and, thus, the proposal is to encourage more of this ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Providence and Science in a World of Contingency

    Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of Divine Action

    by Ignacio Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Science and Religion Series
    Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysical doctrine of providence coupled with his account of natural contingency. By looking at the history of debates over providence and nature, the volume provides a set of criteria to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Divine and Human Providence

    Philosophical, Psychological and Theological Approaches

    Edited by Ignacio Silva, Simon Kopf ...
    Series series Routledge Science and Religion Series
    This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours. Divine providence is one of the most pressing issues in analytic theology and philosophy of religion today, especially in view of scientific evidence for a natural world full of indeterminacies and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • How to Think About God

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    Dr. Adler, in his discussion, extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas. Without relying on faith, mysticism, or science (none of which, according to Dr. Adler, can prove or disprove the existence of God), he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Leibniz

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Maria Rosa Antognazza ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow human beings through the advancement of all the sciences and the establishment of a stable and just political order. In this Very Short Introduction ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Desmond M. Clarke, Catherine Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The period between the publication ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Science and Spirituality

    Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science

    by Michael Ruse ...
    Michael Ruse provides a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion. Arguing against both extremes – in one corner, the New Atheists; in the other, the Creationists and their offspring the Intelligent Designers – he asserts that science is undoubtedly the highest and most fruitful source of human inquiry. Yet, by its very nature and its deep reliance on metaphor, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Embodiment

    A History

    Edited by Justin E.H. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy

    by Sylvia Berryman ...
    It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Topics in Education

    The Cincinnati Lectures of 1959 on the Philosophy of Education, Volume 10

    by Bernard Lonergan ...
    Series Book 10 - Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan
    Bernard Lonergan devoted much of his life's work to developing a generalized method of inquiry, an integrated view which would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge in our time. In Topics in Education Lonergan adapts that concern to the practical needs of educators.Traditionalist and modernist notions of education are both criticized. Lonergan attempts to work out, in the context of the human ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy

    Basic Concepts

    by Joseph W. Koterski ...
    By exploring the philosophical character of some of the greatest medieval thinkers, An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy provides a rich overview of philosophy in the world of Latin Christianity.Explores the deeply philosophical character of such medieval thinkers as Augustine, Boethius, Eriugena, Anselm, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Scotus, and OckhamReviews the central features of the epistemological ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • After Certainty

    A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions

    by Robert Pasnau ...
    No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and ... Read more

    $42.29 USD