Michael C Rea
Biographic Data
| ID | 1006828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C Rea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | Rea |
| SIGNATURE | REA M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Philosophy University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Indiana USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Epistemic authenticity
There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but requires recognition of a new norm or virtue—namely, “epistemic authenticity”—which is the central virtue i…
Metaphysics: The Basics
Hiddenness and Transcendence
Following on from Chapter 3, which described a continuum on which characterizations of divine transcendence generally fall, this chapter makes a case for avoiding both poles, thus locating the correct understanding of transcendence somewhere in between. Rather than advocating for a specific analysis of transcendence, however, the chapter aims to identify several consequences of a theologically adequate understanding of divine transcendence, follo…
The Hiddenness of God
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology
Hylomorphism and the incarnation1
This chapter offers a model of the incarnation that incorporates two central features of Aristotelian metaphysics which have elsewhere been deployed in solving the so—called Logical Problem of the Trinity: i a hylomorphic understanding of material objects and, by analogy, the divine persons, and ii a doctrine of numerical sameness without identity. The model that is offered ties in with and extends what that is taken to be the most philosophicall…
The Trinity
Analytic theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology
The methodological divide between systematic theologians and analytic philosophers of religion is ripe for exploration. The present volume represents an attempt to begin a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation about the value of analytic philosophical approaches to theological topics.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a broad overview of the topics which are at the forefront of discussion in contemporary philosophy of religion. Prominent views and arguments from both historical and contemporary authors are discussed and analyzed. The book treats all of the central topics in the field, including the coherence of the divine attributes, theistic and atheistic arguments, faith and reason, religion and ethics, …
Hyperspace and The Best World Problem: A Reply To Hud Hudson
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
Lynne Baker on Material Constitution
Constitution and Kind Membership
Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity
In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses (PCanalyses) of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks's argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is goo…
Sameness without Identity: An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of Material Constitution
In this paper, I present an Aristotelian solution to the problem of material constitution. The problem of material constitution arises whenever it appears that an object a and an object b share all of the same parts and yet are essentially related to their parts in different ways. (A familiar example: A lump of bronze constitutes a statue of Athena. The lump and the statue share all of the same parts, but it appears that the lump can, whereas the…
Temporal Parts Unmotivated
In debate about the nature of persistence over time, the view that material objects endure has played the role of champion and the view that they perdure has played the role of challenger.' As in other contests, the champion's job is merely to defend her title, whereas the challenger's job is to prove herself worthy. I have no view about how these roles came to be assigned; but the historical fact is that perdurantists have traditionally borne th…
In Defense of Mereological Universalism
The Problem of Material Constitution
There are various puzzles that set our intuitions about composition and identity against one another. Four that are particularly well known are the Growing Argument (also known as the Paradox of Increase), the Ship of Theseus Puzzle, the Body-minus Argument (usually presented by way of Peter Geach's story about Tibbles the cat), and Allan Gibbard's puzzle about Lumpl and Goliath (a piece of clay and a statue, respectively). Such puzzles have rece…
In Defense of Mereological Universalism
Temporal Parts Unmotivated
In debate about the nature of persistence over time, the view that material objects endure has played the role of champion and the view that they perdure has played the role of challenger.' As in other contests, the champion's job is merely to defend her title, whereas the challenger's job is to prove herself worthy. I have no view about how these roles came to be assigned; but the historical fact is that perdurantists have traditionally borne th…
The Problem of Material Constitution
There are various puzzles that set our intuitions about composition and identity against one another. Four that are particularly well known are the Growing Argument (also known as the Paradox of Increase), the Ship of Theseus Puzzle, the Body-minus Argument (usually presented by way of Peter Geach's story about Tibbles the cat), and Allan Gibbard's puzzle about Lumpl and Goliath (a piece of clay and a statue, respectively). Such puzzles have rece…
Lynne Baker on Material Constitution
Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity
In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses (PCanalyses) of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks's argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is goo…
The Problem of Material Constitution
There are various puzzles that set our intuitions about composition and identity against one another. Four that are particularly well known are the Growing Argument (also known as the Paradox of Increase), the Ship of Theseus Puzzle, the Body-minus Argument (usually presented by way of Peter Geach's story about Tibbles the cat), and Allan Gibbard's puzzle about Lumpl and Goliath (a piece of clay and a statue, respectively). Such puzzles have rece…
Sameness without Identity: An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of Material Constitution
In this paper, I present an Aristotelian solution to the problem of material constitution. The problem of material constitution arises whenever it appears that an object a and an object b share all of the same parts and yet are essentially related to their parts in different ways. (A familiar example: A lump of bronze constitutes a statue of Athena. The lump and the statue share all of the same parts, but it appears that the lump can, whereas the…
Temporal Parts Unmotivated
In debate about the nature of persistence over time, the view that material objects endure has played the role of champion and the view that they perdure has played the role of challenger.' As in other contests, the champion's job is merely to defend her title, whereas the challenger's job is to prove herself worthy. I have no view about how these roles came to be assigned; but the historical fact is that perdurantists have traditionally borne th…
In Defense of Mereological Universalism
Constitution and Kind Membership
Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity
In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses (PCanalyses) of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks's argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is goo…
Lynne Baker on Material Constitution
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a broad overview of the topics which are at the forefront of discussion in contemporary philosophy of religion. Prominent views and arguments from both historical and contemporary authors are discussed and analyzed. The book treats all of the central topics in the field, including the coherence of the divine attributes, theistic and atheistic arguments, faith and reason, religion and ethics, …
Hyperspace and The Best World Problem: A Reply To Hud Hudson
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
The Trinity
Analytic theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology
The methodological divide between systematic theologians and analytic philosophers of religion is ripe for exploration. The present volume represents an attempt to begin a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation about the value of analytic philosophical approaches to theological topics.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology
Hylomorphism and the incarnation1
This chapter offers a model of the incarnation that incorporates two central features of Aristotelian metaphysics which have elsewhere been deployed in solving the so—called Logical Problem of the Trinity: i a hylomorphic understanding of material objects and, by analogy, the divine persons, and ii a doctrine of numerical sameness without identity. The model that is offered ties in with and extends what that is taken to be the most philosophicall…
Hiddenness and Transcendence
Following on from Chapter 3, which described a continuum on which characterizations of divine transcendence generally fall, this chapter makes a case for avoiding both poles, thus locating the correct understanding of transcendence somewhere in between. Rather than advocating for a specific analysis of transcendence, however, the chapter aims to identify several consequences of a theologically adequate understanding of divine transcendence, follo…
The Hiddenness of God
Metaphysics: The Basics
Epistemic authenticity
There are better and worse ways to acquire epistemic virtues and more generally to be disposed to change or maintain one's epistemic dispositions over time. This is a dimension along which one might be better or worse as an epistemic agent that, we argue, cannot be explained with reference to current normative categories in epistemology but requires recognition of a new norm or virtue—namely, “epistemic authenticity”—which is the central virtue i…
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