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After God, with Reason Alone – Saikat Guha Commemorative Volume (Volume 8

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)

Edited By: Gyula Klima

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Philosopher and physicist Saikat Guha was a metaphysician interested in applying rigorous logic to theology. These five papers reformulate Aquinas's arguments for God, ask if Ockham's razor requires atheism, and model the Trinity's logical consistency.

Saikat Guha (1974–2008) wrote prolifically on many topics. Trained as a philosopher and physicist, Guha was interested in topics ranging from sexual ethics to Bell’s…

Saikat Guha (1974–2008) wrote prolifically on many topics. Trained as a philosopher and physicist, Guha was interested in topics ranging from sexual ethics to Bell’s Theorem to Anselm’s ontological argument to Augustine’s persecution of the Donatists—though he was primarily a metaphysician. Guha studied at the University of Texas at Austin, Boise State University, the University of Washington at Seattle, and Syracuse University. He wrote more than one hundred papers from roughly 1997–2006, five of which are published here. Three of these papers reformulate some of Aquinas’s key doctrines on God: his first, second, and third ways, and his account of how necessity of being entails absolute perfection. The fourth paper considers whether Ockham’s razor requires the presumption of atheism. The fifth paper presents a logical model of the doctrine of the Trinity in order to prove that the doctrine can be understood without logical contradiction.

Saikat Guha studied Philosophy, Physics, and Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boise State University, the University of Washington at Seattle, and finally at Syracuse University, where he specialized in logic and ontology. After a long illness, Saikat died in 2008.

Editor:

Timothy Kearns studied Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and researches medieval philology at the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies at The Catholic University of America. His main interest is in philosophy and literature as ways of life.

Series Editors:

Gyula Klima is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York, USA; Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Founding Member and Director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and Editor of its Proceedings. Professor Klima’s most recent book is John Buridan in OUP’s Great Medieval Thinkers series.

Alexander W. Hall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clayton State University, Georgia, USA; Assistant Director of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, and Managing Editor of its Proceedings. Hall’s recent scholarship includes Natural Theology in the Middle Ages in the Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology (OUP, 2012).

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ISBN: 1-4438-3373-8
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3373-8
Date of Publication: 2011-12-23

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ISBN: 1-4438-3418-1
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3418-6
Date of Publication: 2011-12-23

Category: Social Sciences, Philosophy, Philosophy

Pages: 85

Subject Codes:

BIC: HP, HPC, HPCB
BISAC: PHI012000, PHI013000, PHI022000, REL051000, REL102000, REL106000
THEMA: QD, QDH, QDHF

Pages: 85

The Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics has established itself as a major venue for the publication of high-quality original articles on medieval philosophy. Particularly welcome is its frequent practice of publishing papers in dialogue with each other. It exemplifies magnificently the ways in which medieval and contemporary philosophy can be brought into fruitful conversation.
- – Richard Cross University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- – Jorge J. E. Gracia State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
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- – Lloyd A. Newton Benedictine College, Kansas, USA
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