Skepticism, causality and skepticism about causality / edited by Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall ; contributors Edward Feser [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klima, Gyula, editor.

Hall, Alexander W., editor.

Feser, Edward, contributor.

Series:

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics ; Volume 10.

Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Skepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality studies the interrelated themes of causality and skepticism in contemporary, early modern and medieval philosophy. Thomas Aquinas's celebrated proofs of the existence of God (the Five Ways of the Summa Theologica) rely in part on an Aristotelian notion of synchronous causality, wherein the things that exist and persist require an accounting that ultimately terminates in the ongoing activity of a first mover, as the existence and persistence...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE MEDIEVAL PRINCIPLE OF MOTION AND THE MODERN PRINCIPLE OF INERTIA; COMMENTS ON FESER'S "THE MEDIEVAL PRINCIPLE OF MOTION AND THE MODERN PRINCIPLE OF INERTIA"" ; REPLY TO MICHAEL ROTA; WHATEVER HAPPENED TO EFFICIENT CAUSES?; ON KLIMA'S "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO EFFICIENT CAUSES?""; REPLY TO MICHAEL ROTA; THE TURN TO EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY; APPENDIX; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6578-8

OCLC:

887508338