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, 2019 ‘Nominalism’ refers to a family of views about what there is. The objects we are familiar with (e.g. hands, laptops, cookies, and trees) can be characterized as concrete and particular. Nominalists agree that there are such things.
Guigon, Ghislain
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The Model of Universals in Kalam Atomism: On al-Juwaynī’s Theory of al-Aḥwal [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021 The theory of the states (ahwāl) under the theological system of Imām al-Haramayn Abū al- Maālī al-Juwaynī (d. 478/1085) and that of the early Ash‘arites can be construed as the understanding of universals as well as the common truths of that system.
Mehmet Aktaş
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Craig’s Anti–Platonism, Lowe’s Universals, and Christ’s Penal Substitutionary Atonement
TheoLogica, 2021 William Lane Craig has defended nominalism as a kind of “anti–Platonism.” To him, Platonism is inimical to God’s aseity. More recently, he also has defended the penal substitution of Christ. However, he has not brought the two subjects into dialogue with
R. Scott Smith
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TheoLogica, 2022 According to William Lane Craig, to avoid compromising God’s aseity we must embrace nominalism with respect to mathematical and logical objects. There are no numbers, propositions, possible worlds, properties, or relations.
Richard Brian Davis
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Unspeakably more depends on what things are called than on what they are
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 This article examines a particular relationship between names and things. Initially examines the tradition that treats this issue in the history of philosophy especially those who criticize the universalist that tries to put human beings into a nature ...
Ian Hacking
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A Reflection on Nominal Christians in Contemporary England
Ecclesial Futures, 2021 This article attends to the religious landscape in contemporary England, particularly those who display some Christian beliefs and practices loosely, while their church attendance is slight, occasional or non-existent.
Sinwoong Kim
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Faith in the Nominalistic Age? The Possible Theological Contribution of Hermeneutics
Religions, 2023 This paper inquires about the defensibility of spiritual faith in this Nominalistic age, i.e., an age when all reality is reduced to scientifically ascertainable matter and all spiritual realities are deemed to be irreal.
Jean Grondin
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Radical Capitalism as a Coherentist Philosophy Andreas Lind [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2017 Analyzing the connection between nominalism and capitalism, Radical Orthodoxyʼs authors see Nietzsche as the one who gave the operative principle to the liberal nominalist tradition: the will-to-power.
Andreas Lind
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Realism, irrationality, and spinor spaces
Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2023 Mathematics, as Eugene Wigner noted, is unreasonably effective in physics. The argument of this paper is that the disproportionate attention that philosophers have paid to discrete structures such as the natural numbers, for which a nominalist ...
Adrian Heathcote
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The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 In this article the author discusses Dennis F. Polis’ defense of the compatibility of biological evolution and Thomistic metaphysics. Some of Polis’ methodological and metaphysical arguments are examined and it is explained why they are unfaithful to the
Robert A. Delfino
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