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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.

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Walter Ott holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and is currently assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: The Cartesian predicament

1: What mechanism isn't

2: The rejection of Aristotelianism

3: The nude wax: Cartesian ontology

4: The laws of nature

5: Force

6: Occasionalism

Part II: The dialectic of occasionalism

7: Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation

8: Laws and divine volitions

9: Causation and explanation

10: A scholastic mechanism

11: Régis against the occasionalists

Part III: Power and necessity

12: 'A dead cadaverous thing'

13: Relations and powers

14: Boyle's paradox

15: Boyle and the concurrentists

16: Locke on relations

17: Locke on powers: The geometrical model

18: Locke's mechanisms

19: Conclusion

Part IV: Hume

20: The Two Humes

21: Intentionality

22: Necessity

23: Relations

24: The definition of causation

25: Conclusion

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199664689
ISBN-10:	0199664684
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ott, Walter
Hersteller:	OUP UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Walter Ott
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.12.2012
Gewicht:	0,421 kg