Category: Wilhelmsen, Frederick D.
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Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
I am presently re-reading The Paradoxical Structure of Existence (University of Dallas Press, 1970) in preparation for the existence chapter of my metaphilosophy book. Wilhelmsen's book is sloppy in the manner of the 20th century Thomists before the analytic bunch emerged, but rich, historically informed, and fascinating. Poking around on the 'Net for Wilhelmsen materials,…
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Avicenna’s God and the Queen of England
For a long time now I have been wanting to study Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's hard-to-find The Paradoxical Structure of Existence. Sunday I got lucky at Bookman's and found the obscure treatise for a measly six semolians. I've read the first five chapters and and they're good. There is a lack of analytical rigor here and there,…