Abbey of St. Victor in Paris. Probably a student of William of Champeaux, he became a leading master in the abbey's school. His writings encompass a wide range of commentaries, treatises, and mystical works. The two most important are De sacramentis christianae fidei, the first theological summa, and Didascalicon, which proposed an influential framework for scientific inquiry and biblical inter...

The article presents a historical and philosophical study of the main ideas American thinker Puritan era, John Cotton (1585–1652). renowned worked as priest both in England colonies. He was known an outstanding theologian philosopher Massachusetts Bay Colony. future received his education at Trinity College Emmanuel Cambridge. His reputation associated with ability to preach knowledge theology,...

Abstract Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral political philosophers have come to play an increasing role as experts in contemporary policymaking. The paper discusses different epistemic democratic worries raised by the presence of philos...

a very eminent degree, being highly accomplished in the mathematical and philosophical sciences, as well as in the theory and practice of architecture. He was born in 1632, and made great advances in mathematics at 16 years of age. Being an Oxford scholar, he was one of those learned men who first associated together there for their mutual im¬ provement in natural and experimental philosophy, a...

An Anglican theologian contends that the claim to absolute protection for the human embryo from the moment of conception is a recent one in the Roman Catholic moral tradition. Citing pre-classical, classical, biblical, and post-biblical Roman Catholic sources, Dunstan argues that these traditions attempted to grade the protection provided to the nascent human being according to the stages of i...

It is sometimes argued that possible worlds are too rich. Indeed, for every sentence φ and every world w, either φ is true at w, or ¬φ is true at w. Possible worlds leave nothing unsettled: for any question one may ask, there is always an answer, yes or no. My view goes along the opposite side. I take possible worlds to be incredibly poor, and I think that a good deal can be added to them. The ...