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Reconsidering Causal Powers Historical and Conceptual Perspectives

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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 02/2021





Note Editore

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume, distinguished scholars revisit the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles within the theories of substance and cause across history. Each chapter focuses on the philosophical roles causal powers were thought to play at the time, and the reasons offered in support, or against, their coherence and ability to perform these roles. By placing rigorous philosophical analyses of thinking about causal powers within their historical contexts, features of their natures which might remain hidden to contemporary practitioners can be more readily identified and more carefully analyzed. The thoughts of such prominent philosophers as Aristotle, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan are explored, then on through Suarez, Descartes, and Malebranche, to Locke and Hume, and ultimately to contemporary figures like the logical positivists Goodman and Lewis.




Sommario

1 - The Inherence and Directedness of Powers
2 - Powers, Possibilities and Time: Notes for a Program
3 - Aristotelian Powers, Mechanism, and Final Causes in the Late Middle Ages
4 - Agency, Force, and Inertia in Descartes and Hobbes
5 - The Ontological Status of Causal Powers: Substances, Modes, and Humeanism
6 - The Case Against Powers
7 - The Return of Causal Powers?
8 - Qualities, Powers, and Bare Powers in Locke
9 - Hume on Causation and Causal Powers
10 - Resurgent Powers and the Failure of Conceptual Analysis
11 - Causal Powers and Structures
12 - Induction and Natural Kinds Revisited




Autore

Benjamin Hill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. His main areas of research are 16th and 17th metaphysics and epistemology, especially regarding the philosophy of mind and language. He is the editor-in-chief of Locke Studies and most recently the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (2017). Henrik Lagerlund is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Stockholm University. He works primarily on medieval and renaissance philosophy, and has written several articles and books. He is the author of Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and editor of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, second edition (2020). Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens. He is an editor of Metascience and a founding member and former President of The European Philosophy of Science Association.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780198869528

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 240 x 25.0 x 165 mm Ø 634 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Pagine Arabe: 320


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