H E Baber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1223060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H E Baber |
| GIVEN NAMES | H E |
| FAMILY NAME | Baber |
| SIGNATURE | BABER H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1430-7065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Personal persistence
According to perdurantist accounts of persistence, transtemporal aggregates of stages, ‘worms’, are ‘the referents of ordinary terms, members of ordinary domains of quantification, subjects of ordinary predications, and so on...on the stage view...it is instantaneous stages rather than worms that play this role’. I argue the stage theory should be preferred as an account of personal persistence. I consider the way in which four‐dimensionalist acc…
What could Jesus do
According to many orthodox Christian theologies Jesus is not merely sinless but impeccable: he not only did not sin but could not. This is puzzling because one can only sin by doing something else and, prima face , Jesus can do actions that you or I could do by which we would sin. I suggest that appearances to the contrary, Jesus cannot do a variety of actions that a merely human duplicate could do. His doing sinful actions is compossible with a …
Trinity, generality, and dominance
I defend a relative identity solution to the identity puzzle posed by the doctrine of the Trinity. It has been argued that relative identity theories which admit absolute identity, such as the account proposed here, do not succeed in saving the doctrine of the Trinity from logical incoherence. I show that this argument fails. Relative identity theories that admit absolute identity are logically conservative, metaphysically innocent, and unproblem…
Cohabitation and the Future
In cases of fission, on Lewis’ account, distinct individuals share stages prior to fission. There is a sense in which the survival of such ‘cohabiting’ individuals is guaranteed. Had fission not occurred there would have been a single individual in their place? So if they, those cohabiting individuals, exist they must survive fission. To that extent any concern they might have about whether they will survive fission is unwarranted. But only to th…
The real presence
The doctrine that Christ is really present in the Eucharist appears to entail that Christ's body is not only multiply located but present in different ways at different locations. Moreover, the doctrine poses an even more difficult meta-question: what makes a theological explanation of the Eucharist a ‘real presence’ account? Aquinas's defence of transubstantiation, perhaps the paradigmatic account, invokes Aristotelian metaphysics and the machin…
Trinity, Filioque and Semantic Ascent
Adaptive Preference
Is Homosexuality Sexuality
Cluistians worry about what they take to be the erosion of the Church's traditional code of sexual conduct and, in particular, the emerging consensus that prohibitions on homosexual activity are unwarranted.Their concerns are twofold.First, they worry that according homosexual relationships a status comparable to heterosexual marriage will undermine the prohibitions, practices and social arrangements that support the institution of marriage.Secon…
In defence of proselytizing
In Ethics in the Sanctuary , Margaret Battin argues that traditional evangelism, directed to promoting religious belief, practice, and affiliation, that is proselytizing, is morally questionable to the extent that it involves unwarranted paternalism in the interests of securing other-worldly benefits for potential converts. I argue that Christian evangelism is justified in order to make the this-worldly benefits of religious belief and practice a…
What the Ordination of Women Entails
Almost Indiscernible Twins
Distinct objects may be very similar, indeed, almost indiscernible.Moreover, individuals of most sorts are such that they could have been slightly different from the way they are.It would seem to follow that where a pair of objects are, as it were, almost indiscernible twins, one or both could have been slightly different in such a way that, though distinct, they were absolutely indiscernible and thus constituted a counterexample to Identity of I…
How Bad Is Rape
I argue that to be compelled to do routine work is to be gravely harmed. Indeed, that pink-collar work is a more serious harm to women than rape. My purpose is to urge politically active feminists and feminist organizations to arrange their priorities accordingly and devote most of their resources to working for the elimination of sex segregation in employment
Taking Laughter Seriously
How Bad Is Rape
I argue that to be compelled to do routine work is to be gravely harmed. Indeed, that pink-collar work is a more serious harm to women than rape. My purpose is to urge politically active feminists and feminist organizations to arrange their priorities accordingly and devote most of their resources to working for the elimination of sex segregation in employment
Taking Laughter Seriously
Taking Laughter Seriously
How Bad Is Rape
I argue that to be compelled to do routine work is to be gravely harmed. Indeed, that pink-collar work is a more serious harm to women than rape. My purpose is to urge politically active feminists and feminist organizations to arrange their priorities accordingly and devote most of their resources to working for the elimination of sex segregation in employment
Almost Indiscernible Twins
Distinct objects may be very similar, indeed, almost indiscernible.Moreover, individuals of most sorts are such that they could have been slightly different from the way they are.It would seem to follow that where a pair of objects are, as it were, almost indiscernible twins, one or both could have been slightly different in such a way that, though distinct, they were absolutely indiscernible and thus constituted a counterexample to Identity of I…
What the Ordination of Women Entails
In defence of proselytizing
In Ethics in the Sanctuary , Margaret Battin argues that traditional evangelism, directed to promoting religious belief, practice, and affiliation, that is proselytizing, is morally questionable to the extent that it involves unwarranted paternalism in the interests of securing other-worldly benefits for potential converts. I argue that Christian evangelism is justified in order to make the this-worldly benefits of religious belief and practice a…
Is Homosexuality Sexuality
Cluistians worry about what they take to be the erosion of the Church's traditional code of sexual conduct and, in particular, the emerging consensus that prohibitions on homosexual activity are unwarranted.Their concerns are twofold.First, they worry that according homosexual relationships a status comparable to heterosexual marriage will undermine the prohibitions, practices and social arrangements that support the institution of marriage.Secon…
Adaptive Preference
Trinity, Filioque and Semantic Ascent
The real presence
The doctrine that Christ is really present in the Eucharist appears to entail that Christ's body is not only multiply located but present in different ways at different locations. Moreover, the doctrine poses an even more difficult meta-question: what makes a theological explanation of the Eucharist a ‘real presence’ account? Aquinas's defence of transubstantiation, perhaps the paradigmatic account, invokes Aristotelian metaphysics and the machin…
Cohabitation and the Future
In cases of fission, on Lewis’ account, distinct individuals share stages prior to fission. There is a sense in which the survival of such ‘cohabiting’ individuals is guaranteed. Had fission not occurred there would have been a single individual in their place? So if they, those cohabiting individuals, exist they must survive fission. To that extent any concern they might have about whether they will survive fission is unwarranted. But only to th…
Trinity, generality, and dominance
I defend a relative identity solution to the identity puzzle posed by the doctrine of the Trinity. It has been argued that relative identity theories which admit absolute identity, such as the account proposed here, do not succeed in saving the doctrine of the Trinity from logical incoherence. I show that this argument fails. Relative identity theories that admit absolute identity are logically conservative, metaphysically innocent, and unproblem…
What could Jesus do
According to many orthodox Christian theologies Jesus is not merely sinless but impeccable: he not only did not sin but could not. This is puzzling because one can only sin by doing something else and, prima face , Jesus can do actions that you or I could do by which we would sin. I suggest that appearances to the contrary, Jesus cannot do a variety of actions that a merely human duplicate could do. His doing sinful actions is compossible with a …
Personal persistence
According to perdurantist accounts of persistence, transtemporal aggregates of stages, ‘worms’, are ‘the referents of ordinary terms, members of ordinary domains of quantification, subjects of ordinary predications, and so on...on the stage view...it is instantaneous stages rather than worms that play this role’. I argue the stage theory should be preferred as an account of personal persistence. I consider the way in which four‐dimensionalist acc…
Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (4 works) · Doctrine (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works)