Causation and Modern Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Allen, Keith; Stoneham, Tom

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume advances the understanding of early modern discussions of causation, and situates these discussions in the wider context of early modern philosophy and science. Specifically, the volume contains essays on key early modern thinkers, such as Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant. It also contains essays that examine the important contributions to the causation debate of less widely discussed figures, including Louis la Forge, Thomas Brown and Lady Mary Shepherd.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136820069
• Artikelnr.: 38280172

Autorenporträt

Tom Stoneham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. Keith Allen is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham 1: Galileo: Reflections on Failure
David Wootton 2: Primary and Secondary Causes In Descartes's Physics
Tad M. Schmaltz 3: Causation and the Cartesian Reduction of Motion: God's Role in Grinding the Gears
William Eaton and Robert Higgerson 4: Spinoza's Conatus as an Essence Preserving
Attribute-Neutral Immanent Cause: Toward a New Interpretation of Attributes and Modes
Eric Schliesser 5: Are Mind-Body Relations Natural And Intelligible? Some Early Modern Perspectives
Pauline Phemister 6: Hobbes's Redefinition Of The Commonwealth
Timothy Stanton 7: Hume
Causal Realism
and Free Will
Peter Millican 8: Pouring New Wine into Old Skin: The Meaning of Hume's Necessary Connexions
Constantine Sandis 9: Is Causation a Relation? Boris Hennig 10: Kant on Causal Knowledge: Causality
Mechanism and Reflective Judgment
Angela Breitenbach 11: Regularities All The Way Down: Thomas Brown's Philosophy of Causation
Stathis Psillos 12: Causality and Causal Induction: The Necessitarian Theory of Lady Mary Shepherd
Martha Brandt Bolton