Efficient causation : a history / Tad M. Schmaltz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmaltz, Tad M., 1960- editor.

Series:

Oxford philosophical concepts.

Oxford philosophical concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (color).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery (or invention) in ancient Greece, through its development in late antiquity, the medieval period, and modern philosophy, to its use in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Contents:

Ancient and Medieval. Aristotle and the discovery of efficient causation / Thomas M. Tuozzo

Reflection : representations of efficient causation in the Iliad / Tobias Myers

Efficient causation in the stoic tradition / R.J. Hankinson

Efficient causation in Late Antiquity and the Earlier Medieval Era / Ian Wilks

Efficient causation : from Ibn Sina to Ockham / Kara Richardson

Reflection : efficient causation and musical inspiration / Anna Harwell Celenza

Modern. Efficient causation : from Suárez to Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz

Efficient causation in Spinoza and Leibniz / Margin Lin

Reflection : reason, calculating machines and efficient causation / Matthew L. Jones

Efficient causation in Malebranche and Berkeley / Lisa Downing

Efficient causation in Hume / P.J.E. Kail

Efficient causation in Kant / Eric Watkins

Contemporary. Contemporary efficient causation : Humean Themes / Douglas Ehring

Reflection : efficient causation in art / Tina Rivers Ryan

Contemporary efficient causation : Aristotelian themes / Stephen Mumford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-939558-6