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    Eleonore Stump

    Eleonore Stump

    contemporaryAnalytic Thomism

    b. 1947

    Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University and one of the foremost scholars of Thomas Aquinas in contemporary analytic philosophy. She is renowned for her work on the problem of evil, free will, medieval logic, and the intersection of philosophy of religion with metaphysics, culminating in her landmark study 'Wandering in Darkness.'

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    Notable Achievements

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    Authored 'Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering', a groundbreaking treatment of the problem of evil through Thomistic and narrative frameworks

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    Authored 'Aquinas', a comprehensive analytical reconstruction of Aquinas's philosophical system

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    Pioneered work on medieval logic, particularly on dialectic and consequences in Boethius and medieval logicians

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    Served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers and the American Catholic Philosophical Association

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    Advanced the integration of second-person epistemology and narrative into analytic philosophy of religion

    Positions & Arguments(3)

    Skepticism

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    Much of what we know yields only plausible (probabilis) rather than apodictic conclusions

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Much of what we know yields only plausible (probabilis) rather than apodictic conclusions

    Philosophy of Language

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    Boethius' observations on genus and species may be the historical precursor of the containment principle (Co)

    Free Will & Foreknowledge

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    Disputes about free will ineluctably involve disputes about metaphysics and ethics.

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