Medieval Modal Logic and Science : Augustine on Scientific Truth and Thomas on Its Impossibility Without a First Cause

Augustine on Scientific Truth and Thomas on Its Impossibility Without a First Cause

By: Robert C. Trundle

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Medieval Modal Logic & Science uses modal reasoning in a new way to fortify the relationships between science, ethics, and politics. Robert C. Trundle accomplishes this by analyzing the role of modal logic in the work of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, then applying these themes to contemporary issues. He incorporates Augustine's ideas involving thought and consciousness, and Aquinas's reasoning to a First Cause. The author also deals with Augustine's ties to Aristotelian modalities of thought regarding science and logic, reassessing the commonly held belief in Augustine's Platonism to not be a mistake as much as a simplistic view of his philosophy. Trundle links contemporary issues in epistemology, morality, theology, and logic, making several useful connections between ancient and medieval studies in modal logic and modern concerns. These applications of modal theory illuminate many puzzles in the works of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Kuhn.

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Foreword Comments	p. ix
Author's Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
St. Augustine: Plato and Aristotelian Modalities
Augustine: Plato and Aristotelianism	p. 1
On the One hand... On the Other	p. 3
Aristotelian Truth	p. 4
Platonic Reality	p. 6
Reality and Truth: Wisdom	p. 9
Aristotelian Modal Thought	p. 13
Plato and Necessary Truth	p. 14
Truth in Theology and Science	p. 17
Modal Scientific Reasoning	p. 18
Observation and Interpretation	p. 26
Critique of Critical Thought	p. 29
Aristotelianism Ignored by Scholars!	p. 30
Unmistakable Aristotelian Causality	p. 34
Causality and Metaphysics	p. 36
Modalities and Critical Thought	p. 38
Thinking Matter: Philosopher's God	p. 43
Self-Conscious Thought and a Modal Impossibility	p. 44
A Modally Relevant Consciousness	p. 47
Consciousness and Freedom	p. 50
An Existentialist Essentialism	p. 52
Theological Modalities and Meaningfulness	p. 55
Verification and Meaningfulness	p. 55
Science Paradigm for Experience	p. 58
Human Sciences and Love	p. 61
Experience and Deontic Modalities	p. 63
Wittgenstein's "Awe" of Augustine	p. 67
St. Thomas: Modalities and Causality
Thomas' Realms: Sacred in the Profane	p. 71
Theology and Philosophy	p. 72
Essence of Five Proofs	p. 74
God via Negativia and Analogy	p. 77
God's Natural Law and Morality	p. 78
The Good Political State	p. 81
The Modern State and Truth	p. 82
Profane Despair: Preempted by a First Cause?	p. 85
Why the Second Way?	p. 87
The Second Way's First Premise	p. 89
First Premise's Modal Status	p. 90
Ordinariness of the Premise	p. 93
The Cause From Modally Relevant Experience	p. 97
Beginning with Modal Possibilities	p. 98
Modalities from Experience	p. 102
Summary: Reasoning to the Premise	p. 104
Contrast to Modern Metaphysics	p. 108
Anti-metaphysics and Political Truth	p. 109
Experience to Modal Scientific Reasoning	p. 113
The Proof and Modal Logic	p. 114
Logic and Revelation	p. 116
Epistemic Status of Premise's Truth	p. 118
The Truth by Way of Science	p. 120
Science and Philosophic Confusion	p. 124
Soundness of Argument	p. 126
Reasoning in General Physics and Metaphysics	p. 129
The Argument and Astrophysics	p. 132
Biophysical and Political Systems	p. 133
Anthropocentric Science	p. 136
Medieval Causality and Causal Truth?	p. 139
"Truth" in a Human-Kantian Tradition	p. 140
Persons and Personal Creator	p. 142
Afterword: the Alternative in Our Society	p. 147
Extremes of Ideological Truth	p. 148
Falsification in Mainstream Philosophy of Physics	p. 150
Anti-metaphysical Ties to Ideology	p. 152
Emergence of Relativistic Weltanschauungen	p. 154
A Suggested Kripkean Modal Interpretation	p. 157
Interpreting an Equivalence	p. 161
Faith and Reason of a Religious Philosopher	p. 167
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 181
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