Gloria Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 9516668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gloria Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gloria |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST G |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Thomas University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9923-1639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Aquinas on Varieties of Necessity in the Created World
This essay examines Aquinas’s views on necessity in the created world. Although Aquinas holds that all created being is contingent upon God’s free act of creation, he nevertheless maintains that there are aspects of the created world that cannot be otherwise. This raises difficult questions about how such necessities arise in a contingent world and how they relate to God’s power. Aquinas’s analysis is complicated by his view that “necessity” is s…
Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers
Aquinas on Passive Powers
Aquinas thinks that if we want to understand causal interactions between material substances, we cannot focus exclusively on agents and their active powers. In his view, there are also passive potencies which enable material substances to be acted upon. He claims that for every type of active potency, there is a corresponding passive potency. This article aims to clarify Aquinas’s views about the passive potencies of material substances. It recov…
What Is an Action? Peter Auriol vs. Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Causality
This paper recovers a historically important debate about the ontological status of an agent's action. When one physical substance acts upon another what is the ontological status of the causal activity by which the former moves the latter? According to the Aristotelian position on action defended up through the seventeenth century, agents cause their effects immediately. There is no intervening causative entity by which an agent causes a change …
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What Is an Action? Peter Auriol vs. Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of Causality
This paper recovers a historically important debate about the ontological status of an agent's action. When one physical substance acts upon another what is the ontological status of the causal activity by which the former moves the latter? According to the Aristotelian position on action defended up through the seventeenth century, agents cause their effects immediately. There is no intervening causative entity by which an agent causes a change …
Aquinas on Passive Powers
Aquinas thinks that if we want to understand causal interactions between material substances, we cannot focus exclusively on agents and their active powers. In his view, there are also passive potencies which enable material substances to be acted upon. He claims that for every type of active potency, there is a corresponding passive potency. This article aims to clarify Aquinas’s views about the passive potencies of material substances. It recov…
Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers
Aquinas on Varieties of Necessity in the Created World
This essay examines Aquinas’s views on necessity in the created world. Although Aquinas holds that all created being is contingent upon God’s free act of creation, he nevertheless maintains that there are aspects of the created world that cannot be otherwise. This raises difficult questions about how such necessities arise in a contingent world and how they relate to God’s power. Aquinas’s analysis is complicated by his view that “necessity” is s…
Medieval Philosophy and Theology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Natural (archaeology) (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 works) · Causal theory of reference (1 works) · Causation (1 works)