William F. Vallicella

Biography

Publications

Books

• ', Boston College, 1978
• ', Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002,. Forbes summarizes this book as follows:

What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been eliminativist. In its critical half, this book thoroughly analyzes and demolishes the main deflationary and eliminativist accounts of existence, including those of Brentano, Frege, Russell, and Quine, thereby restoring existence to its rightful place as one of the deep topics in philosophy, if not the deepest. In its constructive half, the book defends the thesis that the two questions admit of a unified answer, and that this answer takes the form of what the author calls a paradigm theory of existence. The central idea of the paradigm theory is that existence itself is a paradigmatically existent concrete individual. In this way the author vindicates onto-theology and puts paid to the Heideggerian conceit that Being cannot itself be a being. This work will be of interest to all serious students and teachers of philosophy, especially those interested in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

Chapters

• The Problem of Existence, by Arthur Witherall, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002, Philo, 6, 2003, 176–88.', Chapter: "The Moreland Willard Lotze Thesis on Being," p. 27, Evangelical Philosophical Society, 2004.
• , Larry Lee Blackman, Chapter: "Does Existence Itself Exist?; Transcendental Nihilism Meets the Paradigm Theory", p. 57, Volume 62 of Problems in contemporary philosophy, E. Mellen Press, 2005,,.
• ', Chapter: "Is Existence a Property of Individuals?," p. 19, William F. Vallicella, Western Michigan University, Heraclitean Society.

Articles

• The divine simplicity in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006

• "Kant, subjectivity and facticity", WF Vallicella, 1978, Boston College

• , International Philosophical Quarterly, 1983

• "A Note on Hintikka's Refutation of the Ontological Argument," WF Vallicella, Faith Phil 6, 1989

• , Idealistic Studies, 1990
• , Idealistic Studies, 1991
• "Divine Simplicity: A New Defense", W Vallicella, Faith and Philosophy, 1992

• "Existence and Indefinite Identifiability", WF Vallicella, Southwest Philosophy Review, 1995
• ; discussed by Le Poidevan here

• "John Polkinghorne, The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-Up Thinker," WF Vallicella, International Studies in Philosophy, 1996, State University of New York
• , Analysis, 1997

• , Ratio, 1997
• "Could a Classical Theist Be a Physicalist?," WF Vallicella, Faith and Philosophy, 1998, The University of Notre Dame

• , Cambridge University Press
• "Does the Cosmological Argument Depend on the Ontological?", W Vallicella, Faith and Philosophy, 2000

• "Meinong's Complexes", The Monist, LXXXIII, pp. 89–100, William Vallicella, 2000.
• , WF Vallicella, Noûs, 34, 237–59, 2000
• "Brentano on Existence", WF Vallicella, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2001, Bowling Green State University

• "Incarnation and Identity," WF Valicella, Philo, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 84–93

• "A Paradigm Theory of Existence: Onto-Theology Vindicated," William F. Vallicella, L Armour – Philosophy in Review, 2003
• "Kant Chastened But Vindicated: Rejoinder to Forgie, WF Vallicella, Faith and Philosophy," 2004, The University of Notre Dame
• "Does Existence Itself Exist? Transcendental Nihilism Meets the Paradigm Theory", WF Vallicella, Problems in Contemporary Philosophy, 2005