PDF Slide Decks 01 Philosophy Some Preliminary Matters (pdf) 02 Defending the Handmaid: How Theology Needs Philosophy (short version pdf) 03 Aristotle Camping Out with His Dog (pdf) 04 Metaphysics - Plato (pdf) 05 Metaphysics - Aristotle (pdf) 06 Metaphysics - Aquinas (pdf) 07 Epistemology - Introduction (pdf) 08 Epistemology - Skepticism (pdf) 09 Epistemology - Rationalism (pdf) 10 Epistemology - Descartes (pdf) 11 Epistemology - Spinoza (pdf) 12 Epistemology - Empiricism (pdf) 13 Epistemology - Kant (pdf) 14 Epistemology - Aquinas (pdf)
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“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.” C. S. Lewis
Southern Evangelical Seminary Classical Philosophy / Systematic Philosophy Professor Richard G. Howe, Ph.D.
Primary Readings PH 501 Plato. Euthyphro (pdf) ________. Apology (pdf) Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1, 2, 3, and 7 (pdf) Thomas Aquinas. On Being and Essence (pdf) René Descartes. Meditation 1 (pdf) John Locke. Essay Concerning Human Understanding [excerpts] (pdf) David Hume. Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII (pdf) Articles Aertsen, Jan A. "The Convertibility of Being and Good in St. Thomas Aquinas." (pdf) Feser, Edward. "Classical Theism." (pdf) ________. "Does Morality Depend on God? (Updated)" (pdf) ________. "Teleology: A Shopper's Guide." (pdf) ________. "William Lane Craig on Divine Simplicity." (pdf) Gettier, Edmund. “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” (pdf) Geisler, Norman L. “Does Thomism Lead to Catholicism?” Paul A. Compton, ed. The Collected Papers of Norman L. Geisler, Vol. 5, 428-436. Matthews: Bastion Books, 2020. (pdf) Muller, Richard A. “Misrepresenting Aquinas with Prejudice: Why Reformed Theology Is Not Sectarian.” Credo Magazine. Vol. 13, 2 (July 2, 2022). (pdf) Summary Chart on Edward Feser's "Teleology: A Shopper's Guide." (pdf)
Collateral Readings / Multimedia R. E. Allen. “Participation and Predication in Plato’s Middle Dialgues” (pdf) Michael Chaberek. “Aquinas & Evolution” (pdf) Clarke, W. Norris. “Analogy and the Meaningfulness of Language about God: A Reply to Kai Nielsen.” (pdf) Edward Feser. “Argument for the Immateriality of the Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6GmCyKylTw Geisler, Norman L. “Beware of Philosophy: A Warning to Biblical Scholars,” Journal of the Evangelical Society 42/1 (March 1999): 3-19. (pdf) Geisler, Norman L. "The Concept of Truth in the Inerrancy Debate" (pdf) (Inerrancy page) Geisler, Norman L. “Does Thomism Lead to Catholicism?” (off site) Owens, Joseph. An Interpretation of Existence. (pdf) Howe, Richard G. “On the Function of Philosophy.” Christian Apologetics Journal 7 (Fall 2008): 57-82. (pdf) “Two Notions of the Infinite in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae I, Questions 2 and 46” Christian Apologetics Journal 8, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 71-86. (pdf) “Thomas Aquinas’s Doctrine of Divine Simplicity” (pdf) “Philosophical Antecedents to Aquinas’s Doctrine of Divine Simplicity.” Christian Apologetics Journal 10 (Spring 2012): 45-78. (pdf) “Saving Natural Theology from Jeffrey Johnson.” Christian Apologetics Journal 17 (Spring 2023): 55-91. (pdf) Seeing Is Believing? (pdf) Howe, Thomas A. “Does Genre Determine Meaning?” (pdf) Lisle, Jason, K. Scott Oliphint, Richard G. Howe debate on Apologetic Method and the Age of the Earth: Christian Apologetics Journal. Vol. 11, No. 2 / Fall 2013. (pdf) Nielsen, Kai. “Talk of God and the Doctrine of Analogy.” (pdf) Van Dyke, Christina. “Not Properly a Person: The Rational Soul and ‘Thomistic Substanct Dualism’” Faith and Philosophy 26, No. 2 (April 2009): 186-204. (pdf) Veatch, Henry Babcock. “The Truths of Metaphysics.” (pdf)
Course Readings
Primary Readings PH 825 Plato. Euthyphro (pdf) ________. Apology (pdf) Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1, 2, 3, and 7 (pdf) Thomas Aquinas. On Being and Essence (pdf) ________. Summa Theologiae I, Q2 (pdf) René Descartes. Meditation 1 (pdf) John Locke. Essay Concerning Human Understanding [excerpts] (pdf) David Hume. Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII (pdf) Articles Aertsen, Jan A. "The Convertibility of Being and Good in St. Thomas Aquinas." (pdf) Feser, Edward. "Classical Theism." (pdf) ________. "Does Morality Depend on God? (Updated)" (pdf) ________. "Teleology: A Shopper's Guide." (pdf) ________. "William Lane Craig on Divine Simplicity." (pdf) Gettier, Edmund. “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” (pdf) Geisler, Norman L. “Does Thomism Lead to Catholicism?” Paul A. Compton, ed. The Collected Papers of Norman L. Geisler, Vol. 5, 428-436. Matthews: Bastion Books, 2020. (pdf) Muller, Richard A. “Misrepresenting Aquinas with Prejudice: Why Reformed Theology Is Not Sectarian.” Credo Magazine. Vol. 13, 2 (July 2, 2022). (pdf) Summary Chart on Edward Feser's "Teleology: A Shopper's Guide." (pdf) Veatch, Henry Babcock. "Logical Truth." (pdf) ________. "St. Thomas and the Question, 'How Are Synthetic Judgments A Priori Possible?'" (pdf)