Michael Durrant
Biographic Data
| ID | 233949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Durrant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Durrant |
| SIGNATURE | DURRANT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7927-5581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Queer Lives of The Life of H.H. (1822, 1688, 1650-1651)
The article explores how the early modern book trade and book use have shaped the biography of the notorious seventeenth-century printer, Henry Hills (c. 1625-1688/1689), particularly as this pertains to our knowledge of his sexual history. Key to this analysis will be Hills’ Particular Baptist confession-cum-conversion account, The Prodigal Returned to His Father’s House (c. 1650-1651), which is said to have been composed whilst Hills served tim…
Simmel and Shakespeare on Lying and Love
This article contributes to the development of the sociology of lying by exploring some of the earliest comments on the topic, which are to be found amongst Georg Simmel’s writings about secrecy. We outline Simmel’s broader approach to interaction, as an experience that is conditioned upon non-knowledge, and work towards the attribution to him of the discovery of an aesthetic of concealment and revelation. This, we argue, can be used as a foundin…
Aristotle's De Anima in Focus
'De Anima' in focus presents an amended version of R.D. Hick's classic translation of Aristotle's De Anima Books 1 and 2, with pertinent extracts from Book 1, together with an introduction and six papers by prominent international Aristotelian scholars. Michael Durrant brings together up-to-date discussions of Aristotle's De Anima, examining central topics such as the nature of perception, perception and thought, thinking and the intellect, the n…
Keeping Children with a Disability Safely in their Families
With the trend towards keeping children with a disability in their families, intervention practices are seeking to ensure child safety. A research project in New South Wales, Australia, aimed to discover whether particular support programme(s) for children with a disability and their families significantly and positively influenced outcomes for the child and family, and if significant positive change did occur, which programme elements, strategie…
Transcendence, Instantiation and Incarnation–an Exploration
This paper is exploratory. I shall raise the following questions: (1) How is it possible that that which is of its nature transcendent should become immanent or incarnate? In the context of Christian Theology: how is it possible for God to become man? (2) How is it possible for one and the same individual, Jesus of Nazareth, to be both fully God and fully man? In relation to (I) I shall attempt to give an account of how it is so possible for the …
Aristotle's Two Systems
Reference and Critical Realism
The Logic of God Incarnate–Two Recent Metaphysical Principles Examined
In his recent work Professor Morris writes: ‘I am suggesting that, armed with a couple of fairly simple metaphysical distinctions we can begin to see how the doctrine of the Incarnation can possibly be true.’ What are these ‘metaphysical distinctions’ and do they stand up to critical examination? My answer to the latter part of this question in regard to the first distinction is a reserved ‘Yes’; in regard to the second distinction a definite ‘No…
Demonstrative Identification and Descriptive Identification
Journal Article Demonstrative Identification and Descriptive Identification Get access Michael Durrant Michael Durrant University Gollege, Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 151, April 1988, Pages 213–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219926 Published: 01 April 1988
Scepticism
Freedom and Resentment, and Other Essays
The Justification of Religious Belief
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Is the Justification of Religious Belief a Possible Enterprise
In a recent article Professor Phillips has argued against Mascall's contention that the role of philosophy in relation to religious belief is to justify that belief by seeking ‘rational grounds for asserting the existence of God’. In this paper I shall investigate the case Phillips presents and the argument he utilises from Winch to establish the conclusion that it is a fundamental misunderstanding to think that one could justify religious belief…
Logico-Linguistic Papers
This paper presents novel data regarding the logophoric pronoun in Ewe.We show that, contrary to what had been assumed in the absence of the necessary fieldwork, Ewe logophors are not obligatorily interpreted de se.We discuss the prima facie rather surprising nature of this discovery given the assumptions that de se construals arise via binding of the pronoun by an abstraction operator in the left periphery of the clausal complement of an attitud…
Professor Geach and the Gods of the Heathen
In several essays published recently, Professor Geach argues against the thesis that ‘God’, in its Christian use, is a proper name and produces considerations in favour of ‘God’ being a ‘descriptive, predicable, term’; a nomen naturae in Aquinas's vocabulary: a ‘concept’ in Frege's sense ( Begriffswort ). I have no dispute with Geach concerning ‘God’ not being a proper name, but there seems to me to be a serious difficulty in one argument which h…
St Thomas' ‘Third Way’
In this paper it is my intention to do the following: first, to make some general observations on the ‘Third Way’ of St Thomas Aquinas as set out in Summa Theologica , Pt. I Quaest. ii Art. 3; secondly, to offer interpretation of, comment on, and present an account of, the first premiss of the ‘Third Way’; and finally to offer a provisional account of what someone who advocates the ‘Third Way’ might be conceived of as doing in the light of the ac…
Freedom and Resentment, and Other Essays
Logico-Linguistic Papers
This paper presents novel data regarding the logophoric pronoun in Ewe.We show that, contrary to what had been assumed in the absence of the necessary fieldwork, Ewe logophors are not obligatorily interpreted de se.We discuss the prima facie rather surprising nature of this discovery given the assumptions that de se construals arise via binding of the pronoun by an abstraction operator in the left periphery of the clausal complement of an attitud…
St Thomas' ‘Third Way’
In this paper it is my intention to do the following: first, to make some general observations on the ‘Third Way’ of St Thomas Aquinas as set out in Summa Theologica , Pt. I Quaest. ii Art. 3; secondly, to offer interpretation of, comment on, and present an account of, the first premiss of the ‘Third Way’; and finally to offer a provisional account of what someone who advocates the ‘Third Way’ might be conceived of as doing in the light of the ac…
Professor Geach and the Gods of the Heathen
In several essays published recently, Professor Geach argues against the thesis that ‘God’, in its Christian use, is a proper name and produces considerations in favour of ‘God’ being a ‘descriptive, predicable, term’; a nomen naturae in Aquinas's vocabulary: a ‘concept’ in Frege's sense ( Begriffswort ). I have no dispute with Geach concerning ‘God’ not being a proper name, but there seems to me to be a serious difficulty in one argument which h…
Logico-Linguistic Papers
This paper presents novel data regarding the logophoric pronoun in Ewe.We show that, contrary to what had been assumed in the absence of the necessary fieldwork, Ewe logophors are not obligatorily interpreted de se.We discuss the prima facie rather surprising nature of this discovery given the assumptions that de se construals arise via binding of the pronoun by an abstraction operator in the left periphery of the clausal complement of an attitud…
Is the Justification of Religious Belief a Possible Enterprise
In a recent article Professor Phillips has argued against Mascall's contention that the role of philosophy in relation to religious belief is to justify that belief by seeking ‘rational grounds for asserting the existence of God’. In this paper I shall investigate the case Phillips presents and the argument he utilises from Winch to establish the conclusion that it is a fundamental misunderstanding to think that one could justify religious belief…
The Justification of Religious Belief
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Scepticism
Freedom and Resentment, and Other Essays
The Logic of God Incarnate–Two Recent Metaphysical Principles Examined
In his recent work Professor Morris writes: ‘I am suggesting that, armed with a couple of fairly simple metaphysical distinctions we can begin to see how the doctrine of the Incarnation can possibly be true.’ What are these ‘metaphysical distinctions’ and do they stand up to critical examination? My answer to the latter part of this question in regard to the first distinction is a reserved ‘Yes’; in regard to the second distinction a definite ‘No…
Demonstrative Identification and Descriptive Identification
Journal Article Demonstrative Identification and Descriptive Identification Get access Michael Durrant Michael Durrant University Gollege, Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 151, April 1988, Pages 213–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219926 Published: 01 April 1988
Aristotle's Two Systems
Reference and Critical Realism
Transcendence, Instantiation and Incarnation–an Exploration
This paper is exploratory. I shall raise the following questions: (1) How is it possible that that which is of its nature transcendent should become immanent or incarnate? In the context of Christian Theology: how is it possible for God to become man? (2) How is it possible for one and the same individual, Jesus of Nazareth, to be both fully God and fully man? In relation to (I) I shall attempt to give an account of how it is so possible for the …
Keeping Children with a Disability Safely in their Families
With the trend towards keeping children with a disability in their families, intervention practices are seeking to ensure child safety. A research project in New South Wales, Australia, aimed to discover whether particular support programme(s) for children with a disability and their families significantly and positively influenced outcomes for the child and family, and if significant positive change did occur, which programme elements, strategie…
Aristotle's De Anima in Focus
'De Anima' in focus presents an amended version of R.D. Hick's classic translation of Aristotle's De Anima Books 1 and 2, with pertinent extracts from Book 1, together with an introduction and six papers by prominent international Aristotelian scholars. Michael Durrant brings together up-to-date discussions of Aristotle's De Anima, examining central topics such as the nature of perception, perception and thought, thinking and the intellect, the n…
Simmel and Shakespeare on Lying and Love
This article contributes to the development of the sociology of lying by exploring some of the earliest comments on the topic, which are to be found amongst Georg Simmel’s writings about secrecy. We outline Simmel’s broader approach to interaction, as an experience that is conditioned upon non-knowledge, and work towards the attribution to him of the discovery of an aesthetic of concealment and revelation. This, we argue, can be used as a foundin…
The Queer Lives of The Life of H.H. (1822, 1688, 1650-1651)
The article explores how the early modern book trade and book use have shaped the biography of the notorious seventeenth-century printer, Henry Hills (c. 1625-1688/1689), particularly as this pertains to our knowledge of his sexual history. Key to this analysis will be Hills’ Particular Baptist confession-cum-conversion account, The Prodigal Returned to His Father’s House (c. 1650-1651), which is said to have been composed whilst Hills served tim…
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (5 works) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (3 works) · Citation (3 works)