James E Tomberlin

Biographic Data

ID952513
NAMEJames E Tomberlin
GIVEN NAMESJames E
FAMILY NAMETomberlin
SIGNATURETOMBERLIN J E
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Northridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX1

  • Logical Form, Actualism, and Ontology

    James E Tomberlin, ProtoSociology ProjectARTICLEProtoSociology2000

  • Troubles with Actualism

    James E Tomberlin, Frank McGuinnessARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives1994References: 1

    Actualism, as we shall understand it here, is minimally the view that there are no objects that do not actually exist.1 Shifting emphasis slightly, it is the view that there are no philosophical problems whose solution calls for or requires an ontological commitment to non-actual objects. Relative to this characterization, our aim in the present essay is to pose a challenge to the actualist's ontological stance, to test the actualist's ability to…

  • Philosophical Analysis: A Defense By Example.

    James E Tomberlin, David F AustinARTICLENoûs1993

    Preface.- Part I: Origins of Analytic Philosophy.- Part II: Analyses of Belief, Knowledge and Sensation: Ancient, Modern and Contemporary.- Part III: Analysis of Mind and Language.- Part IV: Analysis of Modalities.- Index of Names.

  • Thinking, Language, and Experience

    James E Tomberlin, Hector-Neri CastanedaARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992

  • Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 2, Epistemology

    Jonathan L Kvanvig, James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1991

  • Belief, Nominalism, and Quantification

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives1990

    (TI) A relational account of belief: 'y' is a genuine objectual variable in the schema 'x believes y', and its values are propositions, sentences, mental representations, or whatever. (T2) Realism concerning belief properties: there are genuine properties expressed by predicates of the sort 'believes that such-and-such'. (T3) Realism as regards properties in general: there really is an entity properly called 'the property of being a superb chef

  • Deontic Paradox and Conditional Obligation

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1989Cited by: 1References: 1

    The present essay continues my examination of the fashionable conditional obligation approach for dealing with the various paradoxes of deontic logic. In [id] and [zz] I evaluated the conditional obligation systems of van Fraassen [z7], Mott [v1], and Al-hibri [i] negatively against the Contrary-To-Duty Imperative Paradox and the Knower Paradox, respectively. And I critique Feldman's [I i] ingenious agent-and-time relativized version of condition…

  • Naming and Believing

    James E Tomberlin, G W FitchARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1989

  • Alvin Plantinga

    Richard Swinburne, James E Tomberlin et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1987

  • Alvin Plantinga

    Open AccessH Tomberlin, James E Tomberlin et al.BOOKAlvin Plantinga1985

  • Identity, intensionality, and intentionality

    Open AccessJames E TomberlinARTICLESynthese1984Cited by: 1References: 26

  • Some Recent Work in Action Theory

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1980Cited by: 1

  • A Fatalistic Paradox Examined

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1979

  • "Because" and Good Samaritans

    Open AccessJames E Tomberlin, Frank McGuinnessARTICLECritica1977

  • God, Evil, and the Free Will Defence

    Open AccessJames E Tomberlin, Frank McGuinnessARTICLEReligious Studies1977

    The Free Will Defence , as we shall understand it here, is an attempt to show that (1) God exists and he is omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good is logically consistent with (2) There is moral evil in the actual world

  • The Method of Analysis: Its Geometrical Origin and Its General Significance

    James E Tomberlin, Jaakko Hintikka et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1976Cited by: 1

  • Mathematical Knowledge

    James E Tomberlin, Mark Steiner et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1976

  • Essentialism and Possible Worlds

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1975

  • Existence and God's Attributes

    Open AccessJames E TomberlinARTICLEReligious Studies1974

    The purpose of the present paper is to formulate and (hopefully) resolve a certain puzzle surrounding God's existence and the standard attributes traditionally assigned to God (omnipotence, perfect goodness, omniscience, and the like)

  • Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability. Volume I

    James E Tomberlin, Rudolf Carnap et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1974

  • J. L. Mackie's Truth, Probability, and Paradox: Studies in Philosophical Logic

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1974

  • Malcolm on the Ontological Argument

    Open AccessJames E TomberlinARTICLEReligious Studies1972

    In a recent symposium on Descartes' ontological argument, Norman Malcolm has restated a rather ingenious version of St Anse1m's ontological argument. 1 The purpose of the present paper is to assess the merits of this particular version of the ontological argument

  • Modesty remains a virtue

    Open AccessJames E TomberlinARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry1972

  • The is-ought dichotomy: A modest proposal

    Open AccessJames E TomberlinARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry1972

  • Existence and Existence Attributes

    James E TomberlinARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1972