Richard Gaskin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Gaskin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaskin |
| SIGNATURE | GASKIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disjunctivism and the Paradox of Tragedy
The paper offers a disjunctivist solution to the paradox of tragedy. The first part of the paper defends a version of disjunctivism as that doctrine is understood in the epistemology of perception, and contrasts it with its rival, conjunctivism. In the second part of the paper, it is argued that the traditional paradox of tragedy—the question why tragedy gives pleasure—can be solved by adopting a disjunctivist approach to the relevant felt emotio…
From the unity of the proposition to linguistic idealism
The paper contains a general argument for linguistic idealism, which it approaches by way of some considerations relating to the unity of the proposition and Tractarian metaphysics. Language exhibits a function–argument structure, but does it do so because it is reflecting how things are in the world, or does the relation of dependence run in the other direction (or in neither)? The paper argues that the general structure of the world is asymmetr…
Sophocles
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is one of the founding documents of the European literary and humanistic tradition; it has left its mark on our collective imagination in a way that few other works have done.1 For that reason alone the appearance of a new scholarly commentary on the Greek text is greatly to be welcomed. Patrick Finglass has already published two substantial Sophoclean commentaries: on Electra and Ajax.2 To these he now adds a third. N…
Horace and Housman
Horace’s Attitude to Religion
In “Diffugere nives” Horace tells us that Minos, one of the three judges of the underworld, will pronounce his glorious sentence ( splendida arbitrio ) on Torquatus, the addressee of the ode. It is not obvious whether Horace mentions the glory of the sentence as a compliment to Minos or to Torquatus: the commentators are split on the issue, Porphyrio (i, p. 328) and Orelli (i, p. 328), for example, selecting the former option, while Heinze took t…
Questions of Integrity and Consistency
In the last chapter I assumed that one can sensibly wonder whether Horace’s praise of Augustus was genuine, and I suggested that we should say that it was. Nisbet and Hubbard, by contrast, give short shrift to the question of Horace’s sincerity: “There is no point in questioning Horace’s sincerity: fides to Maecenas required co-operation, there was no sane alternative to the regime, and everybody likes to participate in important causes” ([1], p.…
Language, Truth, and Literature
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation
The unity of the proposition
Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality
Harm J. M. J. Goris. Free Creatures of an Eternal God
Harm J. M. J. Goris. Free Creatures of an Eternal God: Thomas Aquinas on God's Infallible Foreknowledge and Irresistible Will. (Nijmegan: Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, 1997.) Pp. 345, 1260 BF. - Volume 34 Issue 4
Middle knowledge, fatalism and comparative similarity of worlds
The doctrine of Middle Knowledge presupposes that conditionals of freedom (statements of the form ‘If A were circumstances C, he would perform X’) can be true. Such conditions are, where true, not true in virtue of the truth of any categorical proposition. Nor can their truth be modelled in terms of comparative similarity of possible worlds, because the structure of possible worlds is a necessary one, whereas the connection between antecedent and…
Necessity or Contingency
Introduction Part I. The Master Argument: 1. The Master Argument: on the shortcomings of some past interpretations: Conditions to be fulfilled by any acceptable interpretation 2. Reconstruction of the master argument Part II. Systems of Necessity: The Megarians and the Stoics: 3. The system of logical fatalism: Diodorus Cronus 4. Eternal return and cyclical time: Cleanth's solution 5. Freedom as an element of fate: Chrysippus Part III. System of …
Fatalism, Bivalence and the Past
In his paper ‘Some Comments on Fatalism’, The Philosophical Quartery, 46 (1996), pp. 1–11, James Cargile offers an argument against the view that the correct response to fatalism is to restrict the principle of bivalence with respect to statements about future contingencies. His argument fails because it is question-begging. Further, he fails to give due weight to the reason behind this view, which is the desire to give an adequate account of the…
The Stoics on Cases, Predicates and the Unity of the Proposition
Journal Article THE STOICS ON CASES, PREDICATES AND THE UNITY OF THE PROPOSITION Get access RICHARD GASKIN RICHARD GASKIN University of Sussex, Universität Bonn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 41, Issue Supplement_68, January 1997, Pages 91–108, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1997.tb02264.x Published: 22 February 2011
Middle Knowledge
Journal Article Middle Knowledge: Reply to Rice Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 505–509, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220315 Published: 01 October 1995
Bradley's Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition
Journal Article Bradley‘s Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 179, April 1995, Pages 161–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220413 Published: 01 April 1995
Truth, Fiction and Literature
Journal Article TRUTH, FICTION AND LITERATURE Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 395–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.395 Published: 01 October 1995
Molina on Divine Foreknowledge and the Principle of Bivalence
Molina on Divine Foreknowledge and the Principle of Bivalence RICHARD GASKIN 1, ACCORDINGTOTHE DOCTRINEof divine foreknowledge developed by the Spanish Jesuit Luis de Molina ~ and defended by Fransisco Sufirez,' God's foreknowledge of the course of events in the world may be divided into three moments: in the first moment, He knows by His natural knowledge all metaphysically necessary truths; in the second moment, He knows by His so-called m/dd/e…
Modalities in Medieval Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Modalities in Medieval Philosophy. By Simo Knuuttila. (London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 236. Price not given.) Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 383–385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219619 Published: 01 July 1994
Symposium
Journal Article SYMPOSIUM: TRUTH, MEANING AND LITERATURE Get access Harrison Bernard Harrison Bernard Department of Philosophy, University of Utah338 Orson Spencer Hall, Salt Lake City Utah 84112, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 376–381, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/34.4.376 Published: 01 October 1994
Alexander's Sea Battle
The tenth chapter of Alexander of Aphrodisias' De Fato' contains a treatment of fatalism and future truth which clearly harks back to Aristotle's famous 'Sea Battle' discussion in De Interpretatione (DI) 9.2 Alexander's discussion has not yet been satisfatorily interpreted: this paper is intended to help remedy this lack. On the traditional interpretation of Aristotle's argument, he accepted the fatalist's inference from the truth of a statement …
The Truth in Fiction
Journal Article THE TRUTH IN FICTION Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 177–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.2.177 Published: 01 April 1993
Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions
Bruno Snell has made familiar a certain thesis about the Homeric poems, to the effect that these poems depict a primitive form of mindedness. The area of mindedness concerned is agency, and the content of the thesis is that Homeric agents are not agents in the fullest sense: they do not make choices in clear self-awareness of what they are doing; choices are made for them rather than by them; in some cases the instigators of action are gods, in o…
Truth, Fiction and Literature
Journal Article TRUTH, FICTION AND LITERATURE Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 395–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.395 Published: 01 October 1995
Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions
Bruno Snell has made familiar a certain thesis about the Homeric poems, to the effect that these poems depict a primitive form of mindedness. The area of mindedness concerned is agency, and the content of the thesis is that Homeric agents are not agents in the fullest sense: they do not make choices in clear self-awareness of what they are doing; choices are made for them rather than by them; in some cases the instigators of action are gods, in o…
Bradley's Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition
Journal Article Bradley‘s Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 179, April 1995, Pages 161–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220413 Published: 01 April 1995
Sophocles
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is one of the founding documents of the European literary and humanistic tradition; it has left its mark on our collective imagination in a way that few other works have done.1 For that reason alone the appearance of a new scholarly commentary on the Greek text is greatly to be welcomed. Patrick Finglass has already published two substantial Sophoclean commentaries: on Electra and Ajax.2 To these he now adds a third. N…
From the unity of the proposition to linguistic idealism
The paper contains a general argument for linguistic idealism, which it approaches by way of some considerations relating to the unity of the proposition and Tractarian metaphysics. Language exhibits a function–argument structure, but does it do so because it is reflecting how things are in the world, or does the relation of dependence run in the other direction (or in neither)? The paper argues that the general structure of the world is asymmetr…
Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions
Bruno Snell has made familiar a certain thesis about the Homeric poems, to the effect that these poems depict a primitive form of mindedness. The area of mindedness concerned is agency, and the content of the thesis is that Homeric agents are not agents in the fullest sense: they do not make choices in clear self-awareness of what they are doing; choices are made for them rather than by them; in some cases the instigators of action are gods, in o…
Alexander's Sea Battle
The tenth chapter of Alexander of Aphrodisias' De Fato' contains a treatment of fatalism and future truth which clearly harks back to Aristotle's famous 'Sea Battle' discussion in De Interpretatione (DI) 9.2 Alexander's discussion has not yet been satisfatorily interpreted: this paper is intended to help remedy this lack. On the traditional interpretation of Aristotle's argument, he accepted the fatalist's inference from the truth of a statement …
The Truth in Fiction
Journal Article THE TRUTH IN FICTION Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 177–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.2.177 Published: 01 April 1993
Molina on Divine Foreknowledge and the Principle of Bivalence
Molina on Divine Foreknowledge and the Principle of Bivalence RICHARD GASKIN 1, ACCORDINGTOTHE DOCTRINEof divine foreknowledge developed by the Spanish Jesuit Luis de Molina ~ and defended by Fransisco Sufirez,' God's foreknowledge of the course of events in the world may be divided into three moments: in the first moment, He knows by His natural knowledge all metaphysically necessary truths; in the second moment, He knows by His so-called m/dd/e…
Modalities in Medieval Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Modalities in Medieval Philosophy. By Simo Knuuttila. (London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 236. Price not given.) Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 383–385, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219619 Published: 01 July 1994
Symposium
Journal Article SYMPOSIUM: TRUTH, MEANING AND LITERATURE Get access Harrison Bernard Harrison Bernard Department of Philosophy, University of Utah338 Orson Spencer Hall, Salt Lake City Utah 84112, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1994, Pages 376–381, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/34.4.376 Published: 01 October 1994
Middle Knowledge
Journal Article Middle Knowledge: Reply to Rice Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 505–509, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220315 Published: 01 October 1995
Bradley's Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition
Journal Article Bradley‘s Regress, The Copula and the Unity of the Proposition Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 179, April 1995, Pages 161–180, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220413 Published: 01 April 1995
Truth, Fiction and Literature
Journal Article TRUTH, FICTION AND LITERATURE Get access Richard Gaskin Richard Gaskin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 395–401, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.395 Published: 01 October 1995
The Stoics on Cases, Predicates and the Unity of the Proposition
Journal Article THE STOICS ON CASES, PREDICATES AND THE UNITY OF THE PROPOSITION Get access RICHARD GASKIN RICHARD GASKIN University of Sussex, Universität Bonn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 41, Issue Supplement_68, January 1997, Pages 91–108, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1997.tb02264.x Published: 22 February 2011
Harm J. M. J. Goris. Free Creatures of an Eternal God
Harm J. M. J. Goris. Free Creatures of an Eternal God: Thomas Aquinas on God's Infallible Foreknowledge and Irresistible Will. (Nijmegan: Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, 1997.) Pp. 345, 1260 BF. - Volume 34 Issue 4
Middle knowledge, fatalism and comparative similarity of worlds
The doctrine of Middle Knowledge presupposes that conditionals of freedom (statements of the form ‘If A were circumstances C, he would perform X’) can be true. Such conditions are, where true, not true in virtue of the truth of any categorical proposition. Nor can their truth be modelled in terms of comparative similarity of possible worlds, because the structure of possible worlds is a necessary one, whereas the connection between antecedent and…
Necessity or Contingency
Introduction Part I. The Master Argument: 1. The Master Argument: on the shortcomings of some past interpretations: Conditions to be fulfilled by any acceptable interpretation 2. Reconstruction of the master argument Part II. Systems of Necessity: The Megarians and the Stoics: 3. The system of logical fatalism: Diodorus Cronus 4. Eternal return and cyclical time: Cleanth's solution 5. Freedom as an element of fate: Chrysippus Part III. System of …
Fatalism, Bivalence and the Past
In his paper ‘Some Comments on Fatalism’, The Philosophical Quartery, 46 (1996), pp. 1–11, James Cargile offers an argument against the view that the correct response to fatalism is to restrict the principle of bivalence with respect to statements about future contingencies. His argument fails because it is question-begging. Further, he fails to give due weight to the reason behind this view, which is the desire to give an adequate account of the…
Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality
The unity of the proposition
Horace and Housman
Horace’s Attitude to Religion
In “Diffugere nives” Horace tells us that Minos, one of the three judges of the underworld, will pronounce his glorious sentence ( splendida arbitrio ) on Torquatus, the addressee of the ode. It is not obvious whether Horace mentions the glory of the sentence as a compliment to Minos or to Torquatus: the commentators are split on the issue, Porphyrio (i, p. 328) and Orelli (i, p. 328), for example, selecting the former option, while Heinze took t…
Questions of Integrity and Consistency
In the last chapter I assumed that one can sensibly wonder whether Horace’s praise of Augustus was genuine, and I suggested that we should say that it was. Nisbet and Hubbard, by contrast, give short shrift to the question of Horace’s sincerity: “There is no point in questioning Horace’s sincerity: fides to Maecenas required co-operation, there was no sane alternative to the regime, and everybody likes to participate in important causes” ([1], p.…
Language, Truth, and Literature
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation
From the unity of the proposition to linguistic idealism
The paper contains a general argument for linguistic idealism, which it approaches by way of some considerations relating to the unity of the proposition and Tractarian metaphysics. Language exhibits a function–argument structure, but does it do so because it is reflecting how things are in the world, or does the relation of dependence run in the other direction (or in neither)? The paper argues that the general structure of the world is asymmetr…
Sophocles
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is one of the founding documents of the European literary and humanistic tradition; it has left its mark on our collective imagination in a way that few other works have done.1 For that reason alone the appearance of a new scholarly commentary on the Greek text is greatly to be welcomed. Patrick Finglass has already published two substantial Sophoclean commentaries: on Electra and Ajax.2 To these he now adds a third. N…
Disjunctivism and the Paradox of Tragedy
The paper offers a disjunctivist solution to the paradox of tragedy. The first part of the paper defends a version of disjunctivism as that doctrine is understood in the epistemology of perception, and contrasts it with its rival, conjunctivism. In the second part of the paper, it is argued that the traditional paradox of tragedy—the question why tragedy gives pleasure—can be solved by adopting a disjunctivist approach to the relevant felt emotio…
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