The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, 1637-1739

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-91476-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book specifically explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clatterbaugh, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.