Metaphysics and Evolution: A Response to Dennis F. Polis

• Authors: Chaberek Michał
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is a response to Dennis F. Polis’s article “The Compatibility of Evolution and Classical Metaphysics” (2020), which offered a critique of the author’s article “Classical Metaphysics and Theistic Evolution: Why Are They Incompatible?” (2019). In order to justify and maintain his objections to the compatibility of classical metaphysics and theistic evolution, the author concentrates on three problems: (1) the definition of evolution, (2) the Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding of substance, and (3) the clarification of why Dr. Polis’s responses to his arguments fail.

Keywords

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Thomism; metaphysics; evolution; evolutionism; God; creation; form; matter; substance; accident; change

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45–69

Dates

published

2021-03-30

Contributors

author

Chaberek Michał

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-537X

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Notes

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DOI: 10.26385/SG.100102