Efficient Causation : A History

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmaltz, Tad M.

Contributor:

Schmaltz, Tad M., Contributor.

Schmaltz, Tad M., Editor.

Series:

Oxford Philosophical Concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Local Subjects:

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Oxford Philosophical Concepts

Efficient Causation

Place of Publication:

Cary : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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:

""Cover""; ""Efficient Causation: A History""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Contributors""; ""Series Editor�s Foreword""; ""Efficient Causation""; ""Introduction to Efficient Causation""; ""1. (Efficient) CAUSATION""; ""2. A HISTORY OF EFFICIENT CAUSATION""; ""3. REFLECTIONS""; ""PART I: Ancient And Medieval""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Aristotle and the Discovery of Efficient Causation""; ""1. MOVER AND MOVED""; ""2. THE SIMPLEST SORT OF EFFICIENT CAUSE""; ""3. RATIONAL POWERS""; ""4. NATURES (I): SOULS""; ""5. NATURES (II): NATURES OF THE SIMPLE BODIES""

""6. CONCLUSION: THE MOTION OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERES""""Reflection: REPRESENTATIONS OF EFFICIENT CAUSATION IN THE ILIAD""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Efficient Causation in the Stoic Tradition""; ""1. PROLOGUE""; ""2. STOIC THEOLOGY AND PHYSICS""; ""3. THE NATURE AND ANALYSIS OF CAUSATION""; ""5. CAUSATION, FATE, AND DETERMINISM""; ""6. ACTION AND RESPONSIBILITY""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Efficient Causation in Late Antiquity and the Earlier Medieval Era""; ""1. EFFICIENT CAUSATION AND THE SOUL""; ""2. EFFICIENT CAUSATION IN NATURE""

""CHAPTER SIX: Efficient Causation in Spinoza and Leibniz""""1. SPINOZA""; ""2. LEIBNIZ""; ""3. CONCLUSION""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""Reflection: REASON, CALCULATING MACHINES, AND EFFICIENT CAUSATION""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: Efficient Causation in Malebranche and Berkeley""; ""1. MALEBRANCHE""; ""1.1 The Volitional/Cognitive Model""; ""1.2 Malebranche on Body-Body Causation and Impact""; ""1.3 Implications of Continuous Creation""; ""1.4 Causation, Law, and Force""; ""2. BERKELEY""; ""2.1 The Regularity-Plus-Volition Interpretation""; ""2.2 Berkeley�s Mature View and Malebranche""

""ABBREVIATIONS""""CHAPTER EIGHT: Efficient Causation in Hume""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. THE REGULARITY THEORY, THE TWO DEFINITIONS, AND HUME�S NATURALISTIC APPROACH""; ""3. INFERENCES, RELATIONS AND DEFINITIONS""; ""4. NECESSARY CONNECTION""; ""5. DEFINITIONS, METAPHYSICS, MODESTY, AND IMMODESTY""; ""6. THOMAS REID""; ""ABBREVIATIONS ""; ""CHAPTER NINE: Efficient Causation in Kant""; ""1. THE ROLE OF CAUSALITY WITHIN KANT�S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY""; ""2. KANT�S ACCOUNT OF CAUSALITY IN THE SECOND AND THIRD ANALOGIES OF EXPERIENCE""; ""3. KANT�S MODEL OF CAUSALITY""

""4. KANT�S DISTINCTION BETWEEN EFFICIENT AND FINAL CAUSALITY""

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ISBN:

0-19-978222-9

OCLC:

922973137