Kenneth Clatterbaugh

The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, 1637-1739

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780415914772
• ISBN-10: 0415914779
• Artikelnr.: 21321354

Autorenporträt

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