Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. A Philosophical Autobiography

   • Peter Geach

   Pages 1-25

3. Selected Correspondence with Geach

   • Willard Van Orman Quine

   Pages 27-43

4. History of Philosophy

   • Peter Geach

   Pages 45-47

5. Abelard and Medieval Mereology

   • Desmond Paul Henry

   Pages 49-64

6. Form, Existence and Essence in Aquinas

   • Anthony Kenny

   Pages 65-75

7. On the Discontinuity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy

   • Boguslaw Wolniewicz

   Pages 77-81

8. Possibility, Plenitude and Determinism (With Some Comments on Ancient Authors)

   • Georg Henrik Von Wright

   Pages 83-97

9. Logic

   • Peter Geach

   Pages 99-104

10. Plural and Pleonetetic Quantification

    • J. E. J. Altham

    Pages 105-119

11. On a Queer Pattern of Argument

    • G. E. M. Anscombe

    Pages 121-135

12. Geach and The Methodology of the Logical Study of Natural Language

    • Jaakko Hintikka

    Pages 137-149

13. Natural Deduction and Ordinary Language Discourse Structure

    • James D. Mccawley

    Pages 151-160

14. Does Quantification Involve Identity?

    • Michael Dummett

    Pages 161-184

15. Conceptual Surroundings of Absolute Identity

    • Anselm W. Müller

    Pages 185-193

16. On Sameness and Selfhood

    • C. J. F. Williams

    Pages 195-212

17. Philosophy of Religion

    • Peter Geach

    Pages 213-214

18. Philosophical Confusion and Sin

    • Norman Malcolm

    Pages 215-227

19. On Improving Christianity

    • Hugo Meynell

    Pages 229-246

20. Replies

    • Peter Geach

    Pages 247-306

The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen. Our aim was to celebrate the work of a living philosopher by presenting it both from his own point of view, through the medium of a philosophical autobiography, and from that of his closest philo­ sophical colleagues and adversaries. We felt that a philosophical career lived through vigorous controversy was best reflected not by adulation but in the spirit of that career - by open debate. Contributors were not constrained in their choice of topic, but their contributions fell naturally into groups linked with some of Peter Geach's principal areas of interest, and we have so grouped them in the book. There is an interweaving of biographical and philosophical themes, not only in Peter Geach's philosophical autobiography, but also in the introductions he has contributed to each section. Professor W. V. O. Quine's contribution, which consists of extracts from his correspondence with Peter Geach, has been set apart as it forms a natural bridge between Peter Geach's autobiography and the contri­ butions that follow. Their correspondence reproduced here throws new light on many familiar themes from the writings of both philosophers: among them, the objects of belief and other attitudes, issues in set theory, the nature of causality, and evolution in epistemology.

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