{"id":1167,"date":"2010-02-27T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2015-06-12T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:35:59","slug":"linkage-robin-le-poidevin-on-metaphysics-and-the-incarnation-philosophy-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-robin-le-poidevin-on-metaphysics-and-the-incarnation-philosophy-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Le Poidevin on metaphysics and the Incarnation @ Philosophy Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is well known that silhouetted people are far cooler that non-silhouetted people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Philosophy Compass<\/a><\/strong> is a unique philosophy journal which only publishes survey articles<\/strong>, pieces which aim to summarize recent work. Its aim, as editor Brian Weatherson explains<\/a>, is to enable people to keep up with a vast, overspecialized, fast-moving, and only somewhat accessible world of philosophical research.<\/p>\n

What’s more exciting – they sell the pdfs of the articles for $1.99<\/strong>. They’re trying to be the iTunes of philosophy.The registration process is pretty standard, and the web-based system works well, though not one tenth as slick as the iTunes interface. At $70 \/ year for 6 issues, I’m tempted to subscribe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I downloaded a piece on the metaphysics of the Incarnation, by Robin Le Poidevin<\/a><\/strong>. On the whole, it was well done<\/strong> – written in plain, clear language, and\u00a0 fair-minded, although oddly it led with a brief discussion of “non-realist” views of the Incarnation. It seemed to me, having read much of the recent literature on this, that a number of things were missing<\/strong> – off the top of my head: work by Davis further pressing the kenotic strategy, Plantinga on abstract vs. concrete understandings of Christ’s “natures”, Hick’s objections to two-minds theories, Merricks on embodiment.<\/p>\n

But there was a lot that was good<\/strong> – a summary of Chalcedon, a painless introduction to the relative identity strategy, Senor’s objection to the compositional model of Leftow and Stump, some philosophy of mind objections to the two-minds approach, brief discussion of how four-dimensionalism and the “extended mind” theory might be brought into play.<\/p>\n

One problematic assertion<\/strong> Le Poidevin makes is that “fully entering into the human condition includes the possibility of extinction.” (p. 713) I’m not sure why anyone should think that more than the epistemic<\/em> possibility of one ceasing to exist would be required for Christ sharing our lot – that is, that one can’t rule out one’s future extinction.<\/p>\n

But on the whole, it was $1.99 well spent<\/strong>. If you’re a non-philosopher, or a philosopher with another specialty,\u00a0looking for a path into the recent discussion of the incarnation in philosophical theology, this is a good start<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philosophy Compass is a unique philosophy journal which only publishes survey articles, pieces which aim to summarize recent work. Its aim, as editor Brian Weatherson explains, is to enable people to keep up with a vast, overspecialized, fast-moving, and only somewhat accessible world of philosophical research. What’s more exciting – they sell the pdfs of… Read More »Robin Le Poidevin on metaphysics and the Incarnation @ Philosophy Compass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33,8,47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christology","category-incarnation","category-linkage","category-papers","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17098,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/17098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}