80:4 October 1997
Analytical Thomism 

Advisory Editor: John Haldane, St. Andrews

Thomism has always had the potential to exchange methods and ideas with other philosophical traditions. In this century versions of transcendental and phenomenological Thomism have developed out of encounters with Kantian and Husserlian thought. In English-language philosophy, however, the main tradition has been analytical. The question, therefore, arises: what forms of synthesis might result from interaction between analytic philosophy and the thought of Aquinas and other scholastics? The best analytical work has been in the areas of metaphysics; the philosophies of language, logic, mind and action; and moral and political philosophy. These are also central concerns of Thomism.

This issue of The Monist will collect contributions that seek to combine in fruitful ways the interests and methods of the two traditions. Contributors will include Brian Davies, Terence Irwin, Norman Kretzmann, Hilary Putnam and Eleonore Stump.

Table of Contents:

John Haldane 

Analytical Thomism: A Brief Introduction

Hilary Putnam 

Thoughts Addressed to an Analytical Thomist

Brian Davies 

Aquinas, God and Being

John Lamont 

Aquinas on Divine Simplicity

Jonathan Jacobs and John Zeis 

Form and Cognition

Robert Pasnau 

Aquinas on Thought’s Linguistic Nature

Eleonore Stump 

Aquinas’s Account of Freedom

Sandra Mensen and Thomas Sullivan 

Does God Will Evil?

Stephen Theron 

The Resistance of Thomism to Analytical and Other Patronage