The Fourth Lateran Council teaches that God is a " substantia seu natura simplex omnino " —an " altogether simple substance or nature " —and the First Vatican Council reiterated the teaching. The doctrine of divine simplicity is at the center of Thomas's natural theology, since it is essentially involved in his attempt to show that the First Cause that he has proved to exist in the Five Ways ha...

This paper addresses the problem of recovering variable-like entities when analyzing executables in the absence of debugging information. We show that variable-like entities can be recovered by iterating Value-Set Analysis (VSA), a combined numeric-analysis and pointer-analysis algorithm, and Aggregate Structure Identification, an algorithm to identify the structure of aggregates. Our initial e...

Abstract A prominent view in religious epistemology, which I call divine-help epistemology , says that people of faith are epistemically gifted by God, whereas non-believers subject to the noetic effects a fallen world. This aims show how beliefs for can be justified. But argue it makes such prone cluster epistemic vices phariseeism . Divine-help is especially apt promote these because its norm...

This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley. The basic aim is to introduce the DAP and to summarize its results, especially as these were compiled in the final “capstone” meeting of the DAP, and drawin...

e nature of divine eternality is obscure in both historical andmodern discussions. In a way its obscurity is no surprise, given that the nature of time is so mysterious. But the obscurity is still notable relative to the other traditional divine attributes, which are comparatively much better understood. Our perplexities regarding eternality are compounded, I will argue here, by a failure to re...

The article is written on the basis of a conversation philosophy music by Professor G.G. Kolomiets, author book Value music: philosophical aspect, with musician from France, Dmitry Rasul-Kareev, Clarinet solo Orchestra de la Suisse Romande. dialogue gives detailed and simple understanding view example ancient philosopher Pythagoras. His cosmological teaching saw kinship music, mathematics state...