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Dr Simon Hewitt. Position: Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion. Areas of expertise: Systematic theology; Philosophical theology; Philosophy of religion; Apophaticism; Political theology; Theology and mental health; Creation and foundationality; Herbert McCabe; Aquinas; Wittgenstein. Email: S.Hewitt@leeds.ac.uk. Phone: +44 (0)113 343 4685.
SIMON HEWITT. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract. Centred on figures like Herbert McCabe, David Burrell, and Brian Davies the loose tradition known as grammatical thomism is undervalued within analytic philosophy of religion.
Simon Hewitt is a lecturer at University of Leeds, School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science. They are interested in Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Thomas Aquinas.
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Aug 3, 2020 · Dr. Simon Hewitt earned his PhD from the University of London. He specializes in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic and mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy or religion, and analytic theology. Currently, he is a research fellow at the University of Leeds.
By contrast, Hewitt shows how apophatic theology is integral to how Christians have thought about God, and how it can be defended against standard attacks in the philosophical literature. Hewitt diagnoses the unease with apophaticism amongst contempory philosophical theologicans as rooted in a certain picture of how language functions, here ...
Oct 28, 2020 · Negation, denial and falsity lie at the heart of debates about logic. We set out the classical account of the relationship between negation and denial, owing to Frege and Geach. We then challenge this on the basis that it does not permit an adequate account of falsity.
