Gareth B Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 974704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gareth B Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gareth B |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The ontological argument simplified
The ontological argument in Anselm’s Proslogion II continues to generate a remarkable store of sophisticated commentary and criticism. However, in our opinion, much of this literature ignores or misrepresents the elegant simplicity of the original argument. The dialogue below seeks to restore that simplicity, with one important modification. Like the original, it retains the form of a reductio, which we think is essential to the argument’s great …
Aristotelian Categories
This chapter contains sections titled: The Fourfold Classification Tropes Aristotle's Principle In a Subject Owen's Reading Frede's Reading Differentiae Options for "In a Subject" The Tenfold Classification Substance Relatives The Place of the Categories in Aristotle's Thought Being Said in Many Ways Two Systems? The Afterlife of the Doctrine of Categories Notes Bibliography
Whatever Became of the Socratic Elenchus? Philosophical Analysis in Plato
Readers who are introduced to philosophical analysis by reading the early Platonic dialogues may be puzzled to find that Plato, in his middle and late periods, largely abandons the style of analysis characteristic of early Plato, namely, the 'Socratic elenchus'. This paper undertakes to solve the puzzle. In contrast to what is popularly called 'the Socratic method', the elenchus requires that Socrates, the lead investigator, not have a satisfacto…
Inner Dialogue in Augustine and Anselm
In the Theaetetus, Plato has Socrates propose that thinking is a discussion the soul has with itself. But Plato never wrote a philosophical work in the form of an inner dialogue. Augustine's Soliloquies is the first such work. Writing in this form, Augustine is inspired to treat what can be expressed by "I exist" as a philosophically significant piece of knowledge and to entertain Berkeleyan idealism as a serious hypothesis. He also presents two …
Augustine: On the Trinity: On the Trinity
An appropriate motto for Augustine's great work On the Trinity is 'faith in search of understanding'. In this treatise Augustine offers a part-theological, part-philosophical account of how God might be understood in analogy to the human mind. On the Trinity can be fairly described as the first modern philosophy of mind: it is the first work in philosophy to recognize the 'problem of other minds', and the first to offer the 'argument from analogy…
Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Book Review| April 01 2001 Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle ORDER IN MULTIPLICITY: HOMONYMY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE. By Christopher Shields. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 290. Gareth B. Matthews Gareth B. Matthews Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (2): 267–269. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-2-267 Cite Icon Ci…
Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
267-269
Descartes and Augustine
Introduction 1. Descartes and the history of philosophy 2. Descartes' project for a new philosophy Part I. Augustinian Wisdom: 3. Plotinus 4. Augustine Part II. Descartes' Metaphysics: 5. The design of the Meditations 6. Isolating the soul and God 7. Theodicy and Method 8. From God to bodies 9. Conclusion
Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance
The Augustinian Tradition
Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy
Gareth Matthews suggests that we can better understand the nature of philosophical inquiry if we recognize the central role played by perplexity. The seminal representation of philosophical perplexity is in Plato's dialogues; Matthews invites us to view this as a response to something inherently problematic in the basic notions that philosophy deals with. He examines the intriguing shifts in Plato's attitude to perplexity and suggests that this d…
Michael S. Pritchard: Reasonable Children: Moral Education and Moral Learning
Sparshott on How to Take Aristotle Seriously
Francis Sparshott has written a wonderfully wise, urbane, honest, insightful, and provocative commentary on Aristotle's chief ethical work, the Nicomachean Ethics (NE) . Some commentaries on ancient philosophical texts are line-by-line struggles to nail down the meaning of the text, as if the commentator were roofing a house in a high wind, one shingle at a time. Other commentaries are collections of essays, each inspired by a passage in the text…
Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized
De Anima 2. 2–4 and the Meaning of Life
This essay constructs a picture of the meaning of life based on De Anima 2. 2-4. It shows that there are organisms that preserve their form through the exercise of identifiable functions. For an individual to be a short, living thing is for it to be one of these naturally species-preserving organisms. For an individual living thing to be actually living is for it to be able to perform one of the psychic or living functions appropriate to its spec…
Aristotle on Existence
There is no such kind of thing as the things that there are; that there is such a thing as it is not what anything is
Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Thought’s Ego in Augustine and Descartes. By Gareth B. Matthews. (Cornell UP, 1992. Pp. 217. Price not given.) Christopher Martin Christopher Martin University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 179, April 1995, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220436 Published: 01 April 1995
Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes
Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes
In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. By examining the first-personalizati…
Theories of Concepts: A History of the Major Philosophical Tradition
Aristotelian Essentialism
251-262
Causes in thePhaedo
Theism
The idea of conceptual development in Piaget
The Elusive Self
Philosophy and the Young Child
Senses and Kinds
Descartes and Augustine
Introduction 1. Descartes and the history of philosophy 2. Descartes' project for a new philosophy Part I. Augustinian Wisdom: 3. Plotinus 4. Augustine Part II. Descartes' Metaphysics: 5. The design of the Meditations 6. Isolating the soul and God 7. Theodicy and Method 8. From God to bodies 9. Conclusion
Ockham's Supposition Theory and Modern Logic
Peter Geach on Saying Things in One's Heart
On Conceivability in Anselm and Malcolm
IN HIS paper, Ontological Arguments,' Professor Norman Malcolm argues that there are in fact two ontological arguments to be found in St. Anselm's Proslogion, one of which is valid, the other invalid. Without making any claim to know how many ontological arguments there are in the Proslogion and without saying whether I think any is valid, I should like to question whether Malcolm gives us sufficient reason to suppose that the second argument he …
Peter Geach on Saying Things in One's Heart
Ockham's Supposition Theory and Modern Logic
The Meaning and End of Religion: A New Approach to the Religious Traditions of Mankind
Butler and Hume on Religion: A Comparative Analysis
Mental Copies
The Transcendence of the Cave
1. Foundations of the Realm of Reason and Spirit 2. The Realm of Notions and Meanings 3. The Realm of Values and Disvalues 4. Religion and Its Objects 5. The Collapse of the Realm of Reason and Spirit 6. Otherworldly Geography 7. The Noetic Cosmos 8. The Life of the Soul 9. The Life of God 10. Return to the Cave
Dualism and Solecism
TOWARD the end of Chapter I of The Concept of Mind' Gilbert Ryle appeals to analogies to try to discredit the of the Ghost in the Machine. Ryle thinks there is something wrong with saying There exist both minds and bodies. And he thinks that part of what is wrong with the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine finds expression in that solecism. Furthermore, Ryle thinks that what is wrong with saying There exist both minds and bodies will become clear …
Senses and Kinds
Mental Images: A Defence
Experience and the Growth of Understanding
On Being Immoral in a Dream
What is often called Descartes' dream problem (‘How do I know that I am not now dreaming?’) should perhaps be called Plato's dream problem instead. Certainly it can be found in Plato's Theaetetus at 158b–c. It can also be found in Cicero ( Academica 2.27.88) and, through Cicero's influence, in much of the work of St Augustine.
On Thinking
Accidental unities
For if not the philosopher, who will it be who investigates whether Socrates and Socrates seated are the same?(Metaph. iv 2, 1004b1–3)
Philosophy and the Young Child
Philosophical Thinking in Young Children
There are many perplexities one gets into when one tries to reason counterfactually. Among the difficulties counterfactual conditionals raise, no problems are more knotty, and seemingly intractable, than those raised by counterfactual identity statements. If person a were person b then. . .. If Verdi had been Brahms, would he have written symphonies instead of operas, or would La Forza del Des tino, "The Power of Destiny," have been, in its origi…
A Note on Ockham's Theory of the Modes of Common Personal Supposition
A NOTE ON OCKHAM'S THEORY OF THE MODES OF COMMON PERSONAL SUPPOSITION The last half of this century has seen an amazingly energetic and resourceful effort to understand Ockham's supposition theory. The result is that we are much more sophisticated in our approach to the subject today than anybody could have been before. Yet, despite the fact that we now have, not only critical editions and translations of Ockham's logic texts, but also elaboratel…
The idea of conceptual development in Piaget
The Elusive Self
Theism
Causes in thePhaedo
Aristotelian Essentialism
251-262
Theories of Concepts: A History of the Major Philosophical Tradition
Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes
In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. By examining the first-personalizati…
Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes
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