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Peter Anthony Bertocci

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Peter Bertocci
BornMay 13, 1910
DiedOctober 13, 1989 (aged 79)[1]
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy

Peter Bertocci (1910–1989) was an American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.[2]

Bertocci was an advocate of theistic finitism, proposing that "God is all-good but not all-powerful".[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Peter A Bertocci". Fold3. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  2. ^ Reck, Andrew (1991). "The Philosophical Achievement of Peter A. Bertocci". The Personalist Forum. 7 (1): 73–89. ISSN 0889-065X. JSTOR 20708592.
  3. ^ Geisler, Norman; Watkins, William D. (1989). Finite Godism: A World with a Finite God. In Worlds Apart: A Handbook on World Views. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 196-198. ISBN 1-59244-126-2