Peter Van Inwagen

Dados Biográficos

ID981984
NOMEPeter Van Inwagen
PRENOMESPeter
SOBRENOMEVan Inwagen
ASSINATURAVAN INWAGEN P
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Notre Dame
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS59
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES99
TOTAL COMO AUTOR55
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1973
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Utilitarians Should Be Theists

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLEReligions2026

    The moral theory act utilitarianism is defined in terms of the comparative amounts of pleasure acts contemplated as alternatives would yield. It is argued that act utilitarianism cannot serve as a guiding moral principle because (a) it is a plausible thesis that there is no such thing as the amount of pleasure that a contemplated act would yield, and (b) if that plausible thesis is in fact wrong and there is such a thing as the amount of pleasure…

  • Falsity and untruth

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLEReligious Studies2024

    Jc Beall's Divine Contradiction is a fascinating defence of the idea that contradictions are true of the tri-personal God. This project requires a logic that avoids the consequence that every proposition follows from a contradiction. Beall presents such a logic. This ‘gap/glut’ logic is the topic of this article. A gap/glut logic presupposes that falsity is not simply the absence of truth – for a proposition that is true may also be false. This a…

  • If New York Is Not in the United States, It's in California

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLEJournal of the American…2022

    An argument is presented for the truth of the conditional, ‘If New York is not in the United States, it's in California’. Several possible objections to this argument are then examined and evaluated. Further argument establishes that if the argument for the truth of ‘If New York is not in the United States, it's in California’ is sound, it follows that an indicative conditional is true if and only if it has either a false antecedent or a true con…

  • Being

    Peter Van InwagenBOOKBeing2022

    This book presents and defends a large number of theses in ontology and meta-ontology. The meta-ontological theses are broadly Quinean: that existence or being is what is expressed by the existential quantifier of formal logic; that the variables the quantifiers bind are essentially third-person-singular pronouns; that the “ontological commitments” of a person or theory are best revealed when the sentences of the person or theory are translated i…

  • The neo-Carnapians

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLESynthese2020Citada por: 2Referências: 13

  • Being, Freedom, and Method

    Peter Van Inwagen, John A KellerBOOKBeing, Freedom, and Method2017

    John Keller presents a set of new essays on ontology, time, freedom, God, and philosophical method. Our understanding of these subjects has been greatly advanced, since the 1970s, by the work of Peter van Inwagen. In this volume leading philosophers engage with his work, and van Inwagen himself offers selective responses.

  • Against ontological structure

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenCHAPTERProblem of Universals in…2015

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  • The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy

    Open AccessPeter Van Inwagen, E J Lowe et al.BOOKProblem of Universals in…2015

    Are there any universal entities? Or is the world populated only by particular things? The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. This collection of new essays provides an innovative overview of the contemporary debate on universals. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional opposition between realism and nominalism, the contr…

  • Being, existence, and ontological commitment

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenCHAPTERExistence2014

    Ontology is a very old subject, but 'ontology' is a relatively new word. (Ontologia seems to have been a seventeenth-century coinage.) After the passing of the Wolff–Baumgarten school of metaphysics, and before the twentieth century, 'ontology' was never a very popular word, except, perhaps, among the writers of manuals of scholastic philosophy. Currently, however, the word is very fashionable, both among analytical philosophers and philosophers …

  • Existence

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenBOOKExistence2014

    The problem of the nature of being was central to ancient and medieval philosophy, and continues to be relevant today. In this collection of thirteen recent essays, Peter van Inwagen applies the techniques of analytical philosophy to a wide variety of problems in ontology and meta-ontology. Topics discussed include the nature of being, the meaning of the existential quantifier, ontological commitment, recent attacks on metaphysics and ontology, t…

  • Existence

    Peter Van InwagenBOOKExistence2014

  • Time and Cause

    Peter Van InwagenBOOKTime and Cause2013

  • A Promising Argument

    Peter Van InwagenCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of free will2012

    This article aims to show that libertarian free will is impossible. In this view, libertarian free will “remains a mystery.” This argument rests on the insight that if one believes one's future free choice is a libertarian free choice and so must be undetermined, one is not in a position to make a promise to someone that will choose as he or she wishes. The argument that develops on the basis of this insight is related to a general problem that i…

  • C. S. Lewis’ Argument Against Naturalism

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLEJournal of Inklings Studies2011

  • Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives2011Citada por: 7

  • Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment1

    Peter Van InwagenCHAPTERMetametaphysics2009

    Ontology is a very old subject, but ̔ontology̕ is a relatively new word.(Ontologia seems to have been a seventeenth-century coinage.) After the passing of the Wolff-Baumgarten school of metaphysics, and before the twentieth century, ̔ontology̕ was never a very popular word, except, perhaps, among the writers of manuals of scholastic philosophy. Currently, however, the word is very fashionable, both among analytical philosophers and philosophers i…

  • Metaphysics

    Peter Van InwagenBOOKMetaphysics2009

    This core text introducing readers to the field of metaphysics is now revised and updated with a new chapter on being

  • McGinn on Existence

    Peter Van InwagenARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2008Citada por: 2

    Journal Article McGinn on Existence Get access Peter Van Inwagen Peter Van Inwagen University of Notre Dame Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 58, Issue 230, January 2008, Pages 36–58, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.534.x Published: 14 January 2008

  • A Materialist Ontology of the Human Person

    Peter Van InwagenCHAPTERPersons2007

    I will begin by setting out a metaphysical position that is so abstract that it hardly deserves the name ‘position’. (Perhaps it would be better called a ‘metaphysical framework’.) This very abstract position constitutes the metaphysical perspective from which I view all philosophical problems, including those problems that pertain to the human person. If you think this perspective is skewed, you will not find much to agree with in what I am goin…

  • Persons

    Peter Van Inwagen, Dean ZimmermanBOOKPersons2007

  • The Problem of Evil

    Peter Van InwagenBOOKThe problem of evil2006

    This book contains in eight chapters the revised text of eight Gifford lectures, which were delivered at the University of St Andrews in 2003. The problem of evil may be formulated as a question addressed to theists: why would an all-powerful and benevolent God permit the existence of vast amounts of truly horrible suffering? Many reflective people are convinced that this question has no answer. The reasons that underlie this conviction can be fo…

  • Names for Relations

    Open AccessPeter Van InwagenARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives2006Citada por: 2

  • Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities

    Peter Van InwagenBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of Metaphysics2005

  • Can Variables Be Explained Away

    Peter Van Inwagen, Peter LangARTICLEFacta Philosophica2002

  • Persons and Bodies

    Peter Van Inwagen, Lynne Rudder BakerARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002