{"id":880,"date":"2024-03-16T06:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T06:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/the-latest-from-peter-van-inwagen\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T06:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T06:51:56","slug":"the-latest-from-peter-van-inwagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/the-latest-from-peter-van-inwagen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest from Peter van Inwagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just over the transom:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear Sir, <\/span><\/p>\n

Recently I have been looking for some work by Peter van Inwagen and found his recent book Being A Study in Ontology<\/em><\/a>. I believe the subject could be very interesting to you, because, as far as I know, you have written several times on his ontological views (even if there is deep disagreements between his and yours ontological views). <\/span><\/div>\n
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I hope you are doing well in this messy and unpredictable world. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Kind regards, <\/span><\/div>\n
Milo\u0161 Milojevi\u0107 <\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Dear Mr. Milojevi\u0107,<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thank you for bringing this book to my attention.  I will try to persuade the editor of a journal to send me a review copy. Failing that, I will happily shell out 75 USD for a copy. The undisputed 'king' of the 'thin theorists,' van Inwagen is wrong about Being, but brilliantly wrong and a formidable adversary. <\/span><\/div>\n
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I have addressed his views many times in these pages and a few times in print.  Van Inwagen on Fiction, Existence, Properties, Particulars, and Method<\/a> is one; "Existence: Two Dogmas of Analysis" ( in Daniel D. Novotny and Lukas Novak (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics<\/a><\/em>, Routledge. pp. 45-75. 2014.) is another.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Other articles of mine on Being and existence can be found via my PhilPeople<\/a> page.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As for this "messy and unpredictable world," let's hope it holds together for a few more years. I see no reason to be optimistic, but I derive consolation both from philosophy and from old age. In the meantime we must do our part-time best to beat back the forces of darkness.  Only part-time, however, because this world is a vanishing quantity that does not merit the full measure of our love and attention. All things worldly must pass.<\/a> "Impermanence is swift." (Dogen) "Work out your salvation with diligence." (Buddha)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Finally,<\/span> Milo\u0161, I  thank you for your correspondence over the years,<\/span><\/div>\n
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Bill<\/span><\/div>\n
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Musical addendum<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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If Harrison was the Beatle with spiritual depth, Lennon was the radical leftist shallow-pate<\/a>, McCartney the romantic<\/a>, and Starr the regular guy<\/a> and good-time Charley. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just over the transom: Dear Sir,  Recently I have been looking for some work by Peter van Inwagen and found his recent book Being A Study in Ontology. I believe the subject could be very interesting to you, because, as far as I know, you have written several times on his ontological views (even if there … Continue reading “The Latest from Peter van Inwagen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,142,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-existence","category-impermanence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}