Causation and Modern Philosophy
Title | Causation and Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Allen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1136820051 |
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.
Causation and Modern Philosophy
Title | Causation and Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Allen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2011-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 113682006X |
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.
Causation in Early Modern Philosophy
Title | Causation in Early Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Nadler |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271039663 |
Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy
Title | Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Ott |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009-09-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199570434 |
Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy is a study of one of the most important debates in 17th- and 18th-century philosophy: the nature of causation. Ott offers controversial readings of such canonical figures as Descartes, Locke, and Hume, and explores related topics such as intentionality, necessity, and relations.
The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, 1637-1739
Title | The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, 1637-1739 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Clatterbaugh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2014-04-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317828119 |
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.
Causality and Mind
Title | Causality and Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Jolley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199669554 |
This text presents 17 of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy. They focus on two main themes: the debate over the nature of causality; and the issues posed by Descartes' innovations in the philosophy of mind. Together, they show that philosophers in the period are systematic critics of their contemporaries and predecessors.
Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy
Title | Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Dominik Perler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1351379380 |
This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern philosophy. The standard historical narrative suggests that early modern thinkers abandoned Aristotelian models of formal causation in favor of doctrines that appealed to relations of efficient causation between material objects and cognizers. This narrative has been criticized in recent scholarship from at least two directions. Scholars have emphasized that we should not think of the Aristotelian tradition in such monolithic terms, and that many early modern thinkers did not unequivocally reduce all causation to efficient causation. In line with this general approach, this book features original essays written by leading experts in early modern philosophy. It is organized around five guiding questions: What are the entities involved in causal processes leading to cognition? What type(s) or kind(s) of causality are at stake? Are early modern thinkers confined to efficient causation or do other types of causation play a role? What is God's role in causal processes leading to cognition? How do cognitive causal processes relate to other, non-cognitive causal processes? Is the causal process in the case of human cognition in any way special? How does it relate to processes involved in the case of non-human cognition? The essays explore how fifteen early modern thinkers answered these questions: Francisco Suárez, René Descartes, Louis de la Forge, Géraud de Cordemoy, Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ralph Cudworth, Margaret Cavendish, John Locke, John Sergeant, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Thomas Reid. The volume is unique in that it explores both well-known and understudied historical figures, and in that it emphasizes the intimate relationship between causation and cognition to open up new perspectives on early modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics.