Dr. rob Koons - Aquinas's Five Ways

Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for 35 years. M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of five books, including: Realism Regained (Oxford University Press, 2000) and The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics, with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is the co-editor (with George Bealer) of The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), (with Nicholas Teh and William Simpson) of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2018), and (with William Simpson and James Orr) of Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Nature (Routledge, 2021). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism. His forthcoming books include: Is Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? (St. Augustine Press) and Classical Theism (Routledge), co-edited with Jonathan Fuqua.


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[rosenzollern]

Thank you so much! Amazing episode! Are you planning to maybe have some more dialogues with him?

[mythoughtsonreligion]

Very highly intellectual episode and program! Hope I can catch up on this avenue of thinking! I'll be working on this!:) Great job Eddie and welcome back!

[McRingil]

My professor who is a thomist (Polish, of the so called consequential scholl) says that the five ways are mere illustration of the fact, that philisophers claimed to have knowledge of the God's existence and how it could came about (that's it possible to have knowledge of God according to different schools). But none of them are conclusive unless you introduce the essence/existence distinction. And basically the only one Aquinas supports is the efficient causality one. The rest of them are of purely Aristotelian, Avicennian, Platonist and Augustinian origin and make insufficient or false assumptions according to Aquinas alone.