The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book specifically explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem.
The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book specifically explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem.
Kenneth Clatterbaugh is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. He has contributed to many journals, including The Monist, The Philosophical Review and History of Philosophy Quarterly.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 The Debate Chapter 2 Descartes: The Metaphysics of Causation Chapter 3 Descartes: The Epistemology of Causation Chapter 4 Classical Mechanism: Hobbes and Gassendi Chapter 5 The Temptation of Occasionalism: Le Grand and Malebranche Chapter 6 Causes and Sufficient Reason: Spinoza and Leibniz Chapter 7 The Limits of Classical Mechanism: Boyle, Rohault, and Newton Chapter 8 The Attempted Alignment of Philosophy and Physics: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume Chapter 9 Summation and Final Ironies
Chapter 1 The Debate Chapter 2 Descartes: The Metaphysics of Causation Chapter 3 Descartes: The Epistemology of Causation Chapter 4 Classical Mechanism: Hobbes and Gassendi Chapter 5 The Temptation of Occasionalism: Le Grand and Malebranche Chapter 6 Causes and Sufficient Reason: Spinoza and Leibniz Chapter 7 The Limits of Classical Mechanism: Boyle, Rohault, and Newton Chapter 8 The Attempted Alignment of Philosophy and Physics: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume Chapter 9 Summation and Final Ironies
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