Tony Edwards, Ph. D.
My interests in medieval philosophy and theology belong to my wider
interests in comparative philosophy and comparative religious thought.
I am especially interested in constitutive tropes of Western thought such
as vision, presence and form. In my book INTERIOR ACTS: TELEOLOGY, JUSTICE
AND FRIENDSHIP IN THE RELIGIOUS ETHICS OF THOMAS AQUINAS (1986) I examined
the tensions between the basic Christian metaphors of journey, trial and
love as those metaphors are articulated by Aquinas. This led to theoretical
work on the problem of religious paradox, e.g. in "Play,Ritual and
the Rationality of Religious Paradox" (1993), and on the theory of
metaphor, e.g. in "Rorty on the Literalization of Metaphor" (1997).
More recently I have been working on problems in the philosophy of the
humanities, especially on questions of historicism and anachronism as they
bear on the reading of authors in the Western canon.
Email address: tedwards+@pitt.edu
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