Patrick Toner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Toner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Toner |
| SIGNATURE | TONER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3606-3824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A thomistic argument for the containment view of pregnancy
The ‘containment view’ of pregnancy is widely held, but it has recently been subjected to sustained criticism by Elselijn Kingma. According to the containment view, human foetuses (among others) are animals in their own right, contained within their mothers. Kingma's alternative to this is the ‘parthood view,’ according to which a foetus is a maternal part. Despite the prevalence of the containment view, there are not a great many arguments in it…
Hylemorphic animalism and conjoined twins
Thomistic Rebuttals to Three Arguments About Substance Dualism
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St. Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Too Many Thinkers
It has been argued that St. Thomas Aquinas’s anthropological views fall prey to the problem of “Too Many Thinkers.” The worry, roughly, is that his views entail that I—a human person—am able to think, but that my soul—which is not a human person—is also able to think. Hence, too many thinkers: there are too many of us having my thoughts. In this paper, I show why this is not a problem for St. Thomas. Along the way, I also address Peter Unger’s ar…
Transubstantiation, essentialism, and substance
According to the Eucharistic doctrine of Transubstantiation, when the priest consecrates the bread and wine, the whole substance of the bread and wine are converted into the body and blood of Christ. The ‘accidents’ of the bread and wine, however, remain present on the altar. This doctrine leads to a clutch of metaphysical problems, some of which are particularly troubling for essentialists. In this paper, I discuss some of these problems, which …
Meta-Ontology and Accidental Unity
My wife and I and our three children may stand in various relations: being a family, being a basketball team, and so on. I show that Frege's doctrine of existence, when coupled with this simple point, easily solves the problem of material constitution and blocks the overdetermination argument for eliminativism. It does all this work while providing a plausible and clear reductionistic account of material objects. These seem to be very good reason…
Divine Judgment and the Nature of Time
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Divine Judgment and the Nature of Time
Meta-Ontology and Accidental Unity
My wife and I and our three children may stand in various relations: being a family, being a basketball team, and so on. I show that Frege's doctrine of existence, when coupled with this simple point, easily solves the problem of material constitution and blocks the overdetermination argument for eliminativism. It does all this work while providing a plausible and clear reductionistic account of material objects. These seem to be very good reason…
Transubstantiation, essentialism, and substance
According to the Eucharistic doctrine of Transubstantiation, when the priest consecrates the bread and wine, the whole substance of the bread and wine are converted into the body and blood of Christ. The ‘accidents’ of the bread and wine, however, remain present on the altar. This doctrine leads to a clutch of metaphysical problems, some of which are particularly troubling for essentialists. In this paper, I discuss some of these problems, which …
St. Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Too Many Thinkers
It has been argued that St. Thomas Aquinas’s anthropological views fall prey to the problem of “Too Many Thinkers.” The worry, roughly, is that his views entail that I—a human person—am able to think, but that my soul—which is not a human person—is also able to think. Hence, too many thinkers: there are too many of us having my thoughts. In this paper, I show why this is not a problem for St. Thomas. Along the way, I also address Peter Unger’s ar…
Hylemorphic animalism and conjoined twins
Thomistic Rebuttals to Three Arguments About Substance Dualism
labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam
A thomistic argument for the containment view of pregnancy
The ‘containment view’ of pregnancy is widely held, but it has recently been subjected to sustained criticism by Elselijn Kingma. According to the containment view, human foetuses (among others) are animals in their own right, contained within their mothers. Kingma's alternative to this is the ‘parthood view,’ according to which a foetus is a maternal part. Despite the prevalence of the containment view, there are not a great many arguments in it…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (3 works) · Doctrine (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Dualism (2 works) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (2 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (2 works)