Causation and cognition in early modern philosophy / edited by Dominik Perler and Sebastian Bender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perler, Dominik, editor.

Bender, Sebastian, 1986- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; Volume 21.

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Cognition.

Philosophy, Modern--17th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"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 Suarez, Rene Descartes, Louis de la Forge, Geraud 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Suárez on intellectual cognition and occasional causation / Dominik Perler

Descartes on the causal structure of cognition / Alison Simmons

Cartesian causation and cognition : Louis de la Forge and Géraud de Cordemoy / Tad Schmaltz

Causation and cognition in Malebranche / Stephan Schmid

Ralph Cudworth : plastic nature, cognition and the cognizable world / Sarah Hutton

Nothing is simply one thing: Conway on multiplicity in causation and cognition / Julia Borcherding

Cavendish on material causation and cognition / David Cunning

The mechanical mind : Hobbes on sense cognition and imagination / Martine Pecharman

Knowing mind through knowing body : Spinoza on causal knowledge of the self and the external world / Daniel Garber

The many faces of Spinoza's causal axiom / Martin Lin

Locke on causation and cognition / Jennifer Marušic

Embodied cognition without causal interaction in Leibniz / Julia Jorati

John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand on the occasional cause of cognition / Han Thomas Adriaenssen

Berkeley on causation, ideas and necessary connections / Sebastian Bender

Hume and "reason as a kind of cause" / P. J. E. Kail

Reid on intentionality and causation / James Van Cleve.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138505346

113850534X

OCLC:

1099533539