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	Peter Geach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geach dismisses both pragmatic and epistemic conceptions of truth, commending a version of the correspondence theory proposed by Aquinas.
		Like Geach, she was a convert to Roman Catholicism.
		Geach, P. Truth and Hope University of Notre Dame Press, 2001 ISBN 0-268-04215-2
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Geach (266 words)

	Truth and Hope
		Geach’s point is that, by the year 3000, scholars might think that ‘enemies of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’, regarding him as ‘a paradigm of dullness’, had corrupted Pope’s text ‘in order to have a bash at Heidegger’—which would be an example of a wrong inference.
		Indeed, Geach contends, there are biblical scholars who ‘insinuate, or even boldly state, that the prophets of ancient Israel were not concerned with predicting the future fate of Israel and the coming of Messiah’, and who claim instead that the prophets were concerned ‘just with social evils and their remedies’.
		Geach concludes by drawing attention to John Buchan’s ‘excellent novel’, The Gap in the Curtain, in which human beings are imagined as sometimes glimpsing the fixed future: ‘Such fiction is harmless so long as it is not taken seriously; otherwise that way madness lies’.
	www.arsdisputandi.org /publish/articles/000034/article.htm (2632 words)

	World Religions: Peter Geach Lecture
		Geach represents a religious person who rejects both the notion of survival in the form of a subtle body and a disembodied, immaterial soul.
		Geach doesn't reject the possibility of disembodied minds or spirits, but he thinks that they cannot be identical to person's who have lived and then died.
		Geach adds that we have no philosophical reason to suppose that from corpses there will arise at some future date a new human body that is materially continuous with a prior corpse.
	www.homestead.com /mscourses/files/SudduthWRGeach.html (1013 words)

	Identity
		Geach's thesis of the sortal relativity of identity thus neither entails nor is entailed by his thesis of the inexpressibility of identity.
		Geach is, therefore not entitled to go on, “Surely we have run into an absurdity.” It thus seems that his argument for the non-existence of absolute identity fails.
		Geach's argument for his second thesis, that of the sortal relativity of identity, is that it provides the best solution to a variety of well known puzzles about identity and counting at a time and over time.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/identity (7956 words)

	Truth and Hope Book from Books.co.uk
		In this collection of essays, which were first delivered as lectures at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1998, distinguished philosopher Peter Geach confronts some of the most difficult issues in philosophy with the precision of a logician and the grace and wit of an accomplished stylist.
		Geach's engaging discussions of human nature, truth, goodness, and love provide probing insight into perennial themes in an appealing, highly readable style which is nevertheless forceful and exacting.
		Geach knows the subjectivity of his own experience and belief and is able to illuminate that experience and belief by submitting it to a rational and philosophical inquiry.
	www.books.co.uk /truth_and_hope/0268042152.html (211 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Geach’s view suggests this is acceptable, positing that the various versions of "being the same X as" are primitives in the same way "being the same as" is considered a primitive by the non-Geachians.
		As we said earlier, under Geach’s view, "being the same lump as" cannot be broken down into "being a lump" and "being the same as." So, when the Geachian says the lump is not the same lump as the statue, he does not mean they are not identical.
		Geach might attempt to rule out all of these systematically, however, by suggesting that only "same X as" properties that include built-in persistence conditions are true properties.
	s94176570.onlinehome.us /Philosophy/StatueAndTheClay.htm (3500 words)

	Logic, Ontology and Ockham's Christology Alfred J. Freddoso Professor of Philosophy - University of Notre Dame
		Perhaps Geach is hinting that there is an intimate connection between the two-name theory and nominalism--a connection in virtue of which the sins of the latter may be justly imputed to the former.
		Geach seems to be making the additional claim that this nominalistic theory of signification has its orgins in the two-name theory of predication.
		As Geach himself warns, one who succumbs to this temptation puts himself "on a straight road to the Nestorian heresy."25 Geach avoids this pitfall by insisting that every reduplicative phrase is part of the predicate, rather than the subject, of the proposition in which it occurs.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /freddoso.htm (10987 words)

	Peter Geach -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His early work includes the classic texts Mental Acts, and Reference and Generality, which defends an essentially modern conception of (The act of referring or consulting) reference against medieval theories of supposition.
		Geach dismisses both pragmatic and epistemic conceptions of (A true statement) truth, commending a version of the (Click link for more info and facts about correspondence theory) correspondence theory proposed by Aquinas.
		He argues that there is one reality rooted in (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) God himself, who is the ultimate Truthmaker.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_geach.htm (291 words)

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		Together Elizabeth and Peter make a formidable academic couple, both with first-class degrees in what is said to be Oxford's toughest intellectual challenge, Literae Humaniores, the study of ancient Greek and Latin literature, Greek and Roman history, and ancient and modern philosophy.
		In Peter's case this may in part be a reaction to the fickleness of his father, who was in the habit of switching between religions every few months without apparent agonies of conscience; in Elizabeth's case to her being a convert.
		Peter Gray-Lucas, a talented linguist, fluent in German, played his part in the war at the top-secret decoding centre at Bletchley Park, where so much of the Nazis' fighting strategy was undone.
	books.guardian.co.uk /firstbook2001/story/0,10486,603100,00.html (4967 words)

	Medieval theories of supposition - cronological (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Supposition theory is neither as guilty as Geach claims, nor as innocent as Scott, one of Geach's critics, claims.
		Geach sees this semantic foul-up as a consequence of supposition theory's failure to assign applicatival expressions to the proper grammatical category.
		Geach's rejection of distribution stems from his view that it involves assimilating nouns to proper names as regards their manner of signification.
	www.formalontology.it /supposition-crono.htm (6836 words)

	Review of GOD, TIME, AND KNOWLEDGE
		So even though God's belief about Peter is now part of the fixed past, still, as long as the causal prerequisites for free action are satisfied, Peter has the power to watch the game; therefore, when he in fact refrains from watching it, he does so freely.
		Yet in Peter's case there is no obvious analogue of the legal constraints that were operative in the case of Thomas and Edwina.
		Given that Peter is fully capable of moving his body in the ways appropriate for watching the game and that none of the external causal prerequisites is absent, there seems to be nothing that would keep his exercise of the relevant causal powers from counting as his watching the game.
	www.nd.edu /~afreddos/papers/godtime.htm (3233 words)

	NetScrap(TM): Philosophic Anecdotes
		An Oxford philosopher was giving a lecture on the philosophy of language at Columbia University, and came to a curious aspect of the English language.
		Elizabeth Anscombe, the wife of Peter Geach, asks one of the little kids, "Hi, may I speak to Mrs.
		Geach." The young kid, being both a victim of being British and the son of Oxford philosophers, responds, "I'm sorry, but Mr.
	www.netscrap.com /netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=245 (95 words)

	Technical Report #175 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A central part of the theory distinguishes between active and deactivated referential concepts, where the latter are represented by nominalized quantifier phrases that occur as parts of complex predicates.
		Peter Geach's arguments against theories of general reference in Reference and Generality are used as a foil to test the adequacy of the theory.
		Geach's arguments are shown to either beg the question of general as opposed to singular reference or to be inapplicable because of the distinction between active and deactivated referential concepts.
	www.cogs.indiana.edu /Publications/techreps1996/175.html (152 words)

	1997 July B Johnson
		This is the question that faced Luke Gormally as he planned a volume of studies to honor the philosophers Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe, both important figures in English-speaking philosophy in the second half of this century.
		But the proposed principle of unity goes beyond appreciation by the various authors of Geach's and Anscombe's work, for Geach and Anscombe have been united together in fifty years of Catholic matrimony, a half century that has profoundly affected these two rigorous thinkers.
		Mary Geach ("Marriage: Arguing to a First Principle in Sexual Ethics") works to provide a philosophical account of the exclusiveness that seems to us to follow immediately upon the relationship between the sexes.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1997/973BJohn.htm (1440 words)

	FT May 2001: G. E. M. Anscombe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Like her, Geach was destined to achieve eminence in philosophy, but philosophy played no role in bringing about the romance that blossomed.
		As Miss Anscombe pursued her undergraduate studies, Geach was her philosophical mentor (remaining her deeply valued philosophical interlocutor and collaborator the rest of her life).
		She is survived by Peter Geach, seven children (all practicing Catholics), ten grandchildren, and her brother Thomas.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0105/opinion/dolan.html (1969 words)

	Classical Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering
		This is the surprising conclusion of Peter Geach.
		God, Geach observes, is a non-corporeal being and as such does not have a physical nature.
		Peter Harrison, “Theodicy and Animal Pain,” Philosophy 64 (1989) pp.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jlynch/Lynch.html (4013 words)

	9 August
		One of the Medieval discussions that Peter Geach described for the benefit of modern logicians is Buridan's "I owe you a horse" example.
		Geach's "A medieval discussion of intentionality," in Y. Bar-Hillel, ed., Logic.
		Walter Edelberg has pointed out that slightly more complicated versions of the Buridan example discussed by Geach cannot be dealt with in the same way.
	www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au /handouts/161042/9viii.html (437 words)

	Bibliography of Works on Paradoxes
		Peter T. Geach, "A Note on Reflexive Paradoxes," in Philosophical Review 62 (1953), p.
		Peter T. Geach, "On Insolubilia," in Analysis 15 (1955), p.
		Peter Unger, "I do not exist," in Graham MacDonald (ed.), Perception and Identity: Essays Presented to A.J. Ayer, London, Macmillan, 1979.
	home.utah.edu /~u0326281/paradoxbiblio.htm (2273 words)

	Medieval theories of supposition - alphabetical (2)
		An English translation of Peter of Spain's Tractatus called afterwards Summulae logicales on the basis of the critical edition established by L. de Rijk.
		Acts of the Symposium organized by the Dutch society for medieval philosophy Medium Aevum on the occasion of its 10th anniversary (Leiden, 10-12 September 1986).
		The context is a discussion of writings by Peter Geach.
	www.formalontology.it /supposition-alpha_two.htm (7027 words)

	International Catholic University: Lecture Notes 4.4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		What is the good for man? Aristotle's approach through function.
		Peter Geach brought back the relevance of this approach.
		Geach has shown the nonapplicability of such skepticism.
	home.comcast.net /~icuweb/c004-004.htm (725 words)

	Arthur Prior
		In 1949 he had learned from Geach's review of Julius Weinberg's Nicolaus of Autricourt: A Study in 14th Century Thought that for the scholastics an expression like ‘Socrates is sitting down’ is complete, in the sense of being assertable as it is, and is true at certain times, false at others.
		Geach's review sent Prior to the sources, and he found that the ‘Socrates is sitting down’ example is not only in the scholastics but in Aristotle.
		(Geach referred to the whole business as ‘Trans World Airlines’.) With this interpretation of U to hand, the property calculus can be viewed as treating (Lp)a - or ‘Necessarily-p in world a’ - as short for ‘p is true in all worlds accessible from a’.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/prior (9522 words)

	Week 3
		Peter Geach "The Moral law and the Law of God", in his God and the Soul (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
		Here he is from his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, an important theological work, discussing the moral character of sexual intercourse:
		Peter Brown, biographer of St Augustine, speaks of the disturbing strangeness of the central preoccupations of Xtns of the first five centuries.
	www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au /handouts/161023/wk3.html (1140 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Philosophy of Religion Forum :: Why almighty? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For example, Peter Geach (among the very best of the philosophically sophisticated addressing topics in philosophy of religion) says, among other things,
		Christians are ommitted to believing that God is almight: the source of all power, for whom there is no frustration or failure.
		Geach has a good deal more to say about the attributes of God, but what does the author (others?) of the OP make of the Geach comments reproduced?
	ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-1557-start-15.html (590 words)

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		Don't expect Peter Singer to be quoted heavily on the issue that roiled the Nov. 2 election, same-sex marriage.
		When I noted that some of the most intelligent English-speaking philosophers of the 20th century have been adult converts to Catholicismâ”Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, John Finnis, Michael Dummett, and Nicholas Rescher all emphasized the intellectual basis for their conversionâ”Mr.
		Those programs assume that man without God is a wonderful brain, not a beast, and their academic authority receives bulwarking from media allies who quote academic ethicists liberally and lambast other ways of arriving at decisions.
	www.worldmag.com /subscriber/displayarticle.cfm?id=9987 (1976 words)

	G. E. M. Anscombe
		She lived 81 years, reciting the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary as she died surrounded by her husband, the philosopher Peter Geach, and four of her seven children.
		She had been diligent in securing an academic posting for me in Oxford, but she could also be absent-minded.
		Her young children wandered along the canal with signs pinned to them: "Do not feed me, I am a Geach." She was, nevertheless, an utterly devoted mother.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/catholic_stories/cs0085.html (604 words)

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		If we now consider the "five ways" in detail, we shall see that four of them quite clearly depend on the legitimacy of that lumping-together of things by which one would pass from particular things to the world as a whole.
		I do think that the argument given by Geach can be successfully defended, given a few modifications and explanations.
		Rowe gives as examples "all the parts of this chair are brown: therefore, this chair is brown" and "all the parts of this desk are made of metal: therefore, this desk is made of metal." We need to determine whether the composition argument used by Aquinas (or Geach's Aquinas) is valid or not.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1995/952aLamo.htm (5824 words)

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		He dismisses Darwinisticistic attempts to regard reason as inessential to our humanity, as "mere sophistry, laughable, or pitiable." He repudiates any capacity for language in animals as mere "association of manual signs with things or performances."
		Geach, P. http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/2/murray-geach.html Truth and Hope ] University of Notre Dame Press, 2001 ISBN 0-268-04215-2
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/peter_geach (315 words)

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