After God, with Reason Alone

Saikat Guha (1974â "2008) wrote prolifically on many topics. Trained as a philosopher and physicist, Guha was interested in topics ranging from sexual ethics to Bellâ (TM)s Theorem to Anselmâ (TM)s ontological argument to Augustineâ (TM)s persecution of the Donatistsâ "though he was primarily a metaphysician. Guha studied at the University of Texas at Austin, Boise State University, the University of Washington at Seattle, and Syracuse University. He wrote more than one hundred papers from roughly 1997â "2006, five of which are published here. Three of these papers reformulate some of Aquinasâ (TM)s key doctrines on God: his first, second, and third ways, and his account of how necessity of being entails absolute perfection. The fourth paper considers whether Ockhamâ (TM)s razor requires the presumption of atheism. The fifth paper presents a logical model of the doctrine of the Trinity in order to prove that the doctrine can be understood without logical contradiction.