This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities.
This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities.
Sebastian Bender is Junior Professor of Philosophy at Georg¿August¿Universität Göttingen. He specializes in early modern philosophy, with a focus on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Leibniz' Metaphysik der Modalität (2016) and cöeditor of Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy (2020). Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and CöDirector of the Human Abilities Center. His research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy. His books include Feelings Transformed. Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 (author, 2018), The Faculties: A History (editor, 2015), and Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy (cöeditor, 2020).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Sebastian Bender and Dominik Perler 1. Suárez on Powers and Abilities as Inner Causes Dominik Perler 2. Real Tendencies: Descartes on Dispositions and Powers in the Material World Jean-Pascal Anfray 3. Occasionalism, Powers, and Human Freedom in French Cartesianism Tad M. Schmaltz 4. Sergeant versus Le Grand on Forms and Causal Power Han Thomas Adriaenssen 5. Move your Body! Cavendish on Self-Motion Colin Chamberlain 6. Hobbes on Powers, Accidents, and Motions Stewart D. Duncan 7. Gravity, Occult Qualities, and Newton's Ontology of Powers Patrick J. Connolly 8. Spinoza on Powers and Abilities Martin Lin 9. Locke on the Right Use of Our Abilities Jennifer Marui¿ 10. Forces and Abilities in Leibniz Stephan Schmid 11. Du Châtelet on the Powers of Bodies and Minds Marcy P. Lascano 12. Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals Jeremy Dunham 13. Moral Competence as a Distinctively Human Ability: Rousseau and Herder Anik Waldow 14. Watts and Trotter Cockburn on the Power of Thinking Ruth Boeker 15. Mental Faculties and Powers and the Foundations of Hume's Philosophy Karl Schafer 16. Reid on Powers and Abilities M. Folescu 17. Kant on Abilities, Human Freedom, and Complete Determination Sebastian Bender
Introduction Sebastian Bender and Dominik Perler 1. Suárez on Powers and Abilities as Inner Causes Dominik Perler 2. Real Tendencies: Descartes on Dispositions and Powers in the Material World Jean-Pascal Anfray 3. Occasionalism, Powers, and Human Freedom in French Cartesianism Tad M. Schmaltz 4. Sergeant versus Le Grand on Forms and Causal Power Han Thomas Adriaenssen 5. Move your Body! Cavendish on Self-Motion Colin Chamberlain 6. Hobbes on Powers, Accidents, and Motions Stewart D. Duncan 7. Gravity, Occult Qualities, and Newton's Ontology of Powers Patrick J. Connolly 8. Spinoza on Powers and Abilities Martin Lin 9. Locke on the Right Use of Our Abilities Jennifer Marui¿ 10. Forces and Abilities in Leibniz Stephan Schmid 11. Du Châtelet on the Powers of Bodies and Minds Marcy P. Lascano 12. Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals Jeremy Dunham 13. Moral Competence as a Distinctively Human Ability: Rousseau and Herder Anik Waldow 14. Watts and Trotter Cockburn on the Power of Thinking Ruth Boeker 15. Mental Faculties and Powers and the Foundations of Hume's Philosophy Karl Schafer 16. Reid on Powers and Abilities M. Folescu 17. Kant on Abilities, Human Freedom, and Complete Determination Sebastian Bender
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