Aquinas on Torture

On Kenny on Aquinas on Being : A Critical Review of Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny

Gyula Klima, Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind (New York: Routledge, 1995) in Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998) 113–17. In this essay I will only deal with Kenny’s charges against Aquinas’s doctrine that directly concern Aquinas’s doctrine of being, namely, the charge of his failure to distinguish “specifi c existence” from “individual being” à la Frege, and the charges against Aquinas’s doctrin...

Gabriele Galluzzo , Aquinas on Mental Being

Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...

Aquinas Hobor Research Statement

I am interested in improving software reliability through specification and verification techniques. Recently I have focused on improving the reliability of concurrent programs. Multi-core processors are leading to an increasing number of programs that utilize concurrency. Unfortunately, concurrency bugs tend to be among the most difficult to discover through testing. Therefore to improve the r...

On the permissibility of torture.

Psychology and mind in Aquinas.

This article stresses the main lines of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy on the nature of the body-soul union. Following Aristotle, Aquinas sees the soul as a 'principle of life' which is intimately bound to a body. Together they form a non-contingent composition. In addition, the distinctive feature of the human soul is rationality, which implies that a human needs a mind to be what it is. However,...