Books by Siobhan Nash-Marshall
Papers by Siobhan Nash-Marshall
Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 23, 2024
I peccati dei padri, 2018
A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages, 2012
This chapter sketches a partial picture of Boethius's influence on medieval thought, based bo... more This chapter sketches a partial picture of Boethius's influence on medieval thought, based both on current manuscript work and, above all, on an impartial recognition of Boethius's originality as a thinker. It outlines and broadly discusses the characteristics of Boethius's thought and their significance with respect to the development of medieval thought. The chapter briefly presents the history of the process through which medievals came to appropriate Boethian texts and thought. Boethius's primary contributions to medieval philosophical and theological thought are commonly held to be three: (1) Boethius furnished medievals with the texts through which they learned logic; (2) he helped to develop a philosophical vocabulary for the Latin speaking world; and (3) he gave the medievals a method with which to do theology. The three claims are perfectly compatible with the assertion that Boethius was only a marginal figure with respect to the development of medieval metaphysics and theology. Keywords:Boethius; medievals; metaphysics; theology
Abstract: This paper regards the plausibility of rejecting the scholastic claim that the “good” i... more Abstract: This paper regards the plausibility of rejecting the scholastic claim that the “good” is a transcendental property of being—that ens et bonum convertuntur—on the basis of two claims: (1) Stephen Cahn’s claim that evil worlds created by an evil God are intrinsically plausible—i.e., that it is plausible to think of evil as a positive and instantiable property; and (2) the claim that “evil is a primitive”—that is, that evil is a primary or basic ontological property. It argues that if an “ontological primitive” must be a property which has no basic constituents other than itself—or whose definition cannot invoke concepts or constituents other than the primitive itself—evil itself cannot be considered a primitive. Nor can it be considered a positive property.
Metaphilosophy, 2013
This article analyzes the claim that "deliberate denial [of genocide] is a form of aggression tha... more This article analyzes the claim that "deliberate denial [of genocide] is a form of aggression that ought to be regarded as a contribution to genocidal violence in its own right." Its objective is to demonstrate that the claim is substantially correct: there are instances of genocide negation that are genocidal acts. The article suggests that one such instance is contained in a letter sent to Professor Robert Jay Lifton by Turkey's ambassador to the United States. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, it delineates and discusses the unexpected contents of the letter to Lifton. In the second, it primarily deals with three topics: lying, genocide, and Austinian performatives. In the third part, it takes the points made in the second part and applies them to the contents of the letter to Lifton, and demonstrates that the letter is an instance of genocide negation that is genocidal.
International Philosophical Quarterly, 2012
Quaestiones Disputatae, 2015
International Philosophical Quarterly, 2002
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2007
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Books by Siobhan Nash-Marshall
Papers by Siobhan Nash-Marshall