Walter Ott

Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570430
• ISBN-10: 0199570434
• Artikelnr.: 26365758

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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