Kenneth Clatterbaugh

The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, 1637-1739

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415914765
• ISBN-10: 0415914760
• Artikelnr.: 21841290

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Clatterbaugh is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. He has contributed to many journals, including The Monist, The Philosophical Review and History of Philosophy Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Debate
Chapter 2 Descartes: The Metaphysics of Causation
Chapter 3 Descartes: The Epistemology of Causation
Chapter 4 Classical Mechanism: Hobbes and Gassendi
Chapter 5 The Temptation of Occasionalism: Le Grand and Malebranche
Chapter 6 Causes and Sufficient Reason: Spinoza and Leibniz
Chapter 7 The Limits of Classical Mechanism: Boyle, Rohault, and Newton
Chapter 8 The Attempted Alignment of Philosophy and Physics: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
Chapter 9 Summation and Final Ironies