Causation and modern philosophy [electronic resource] / edited by Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham.
Series: Routledge advances in the history of philosophy ; 3.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: vi, 273 pISBN:- 9780203830116
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Galileo : reflections on failure / David Wootton -- 2. Primary and secondary causes in Descartes' 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.
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