12 Presuppositional Realism: On Simo Knuuttila’s Views on the Issue of Realism in the Historiography of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1 On Simo Knuuttila: A Philosopher Examining the History of Philosophy 1
4. 2 How to Study the History of Philosophy: Learning from Simo Knuuttila 17
5. 3 Plato as the Originator of Western Logic 33
6. 4 On the Conditions and Limits of Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Analysis of the Case of a Speaking Lion 51
7. 5 Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium, Yesterday and Today 85
8. 6 Simo Knuuttila as a Commentator on Aristotle’s Philosophical Treatises 109
9. 7 Simo Knuuttila on Temporal Necessity in Aristotle and Boethius 131
10. 8 ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Utilitarian Animal Ethics 155
11. 9 The Problem of Self-Love in Twelfth-Century Philosophy 175
12. 10 Nicole Oresme on Children and Animals 201
13. 11 Incidental Perception and the Unity of Perceptual Experience in Francisco Suárez 217
14. 12 Presuppositional Realism: On Simo Knuuttila’s Views on the Issue of Realism in the Historiography of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion 243
15. 13 Simo Knuuttila on Reason and Religious Faith 265
16. 14 On Asserting That God Exists 285