Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy /

Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy /

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Author / Creator:Ott, Walter R.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:xii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Causation.
Philosophy of nature.
Necessity (Philosophy)
Natural law.
Causation.
Natural law.
Necessity (Philosophy)
Philosophy of nature.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7902263
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ISBN:9780199570430 (alk. paper)
0199570434 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Themes
  • The origin and status of laws of nature
  • The ontology of powers
  • Necessity
  • Models of causation
  • Plan of the book
  • The Aristotelian background
  • Necessity
  • The ontology of relations
  • Manifest and occult qualities
  • The Cartesian predicament
  • What mechanism isn't
  • The rejection of Aristotelianism
  • The nude wax : Cartesian ontology
  • The laws of nature
  • Force
  • Occasionalism
  • The concurrentist reading
  • The argument from laws of nature
  • Thoroughgoing occasionalism
  • The problem of mental causation
  • The dialectic of occasionalism
  • Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation
  • The argument from nonsense
  • The argument from elimination
  • The divine concursus argument
  • 'Little souls' revisited
  • The 'no necessary connection' argument
  • The epistemic argument
  • Laws and divine volitions
  • The content of divine volitions
  • The problem of efficacious laws
  • Causation and explanation
  • A scholastic mechanism
  • Régis against the occasionalists
  • Power and necessity
  • A dead cadaverous thing
  • Relations and powers
  • Boyle's paradox
  • Boyle and the concurrentists
  • Locke on relations
  • Locke on powers : the geometrical model
  • Locke's mechanisms
  • Hume
  • The two Humes
  • Intentionality
  • Meaning
  • Against the positivist reading
  • Signification
  • Judgment and belief
  • Semiotic empiricism
  • Relative ideas
  • The argument from nonsense
  • Necessity
  • Finding Hume's target
  • Against the cognitive and geometrical models
  • The neighboring fields
  • The practicality requirement
  • Relations
  • The status of relations
  • Two kinds of relations
  • The nature of necessity
  • The definition of causation
  • The problem
  • Subjectivism or projectivism?
  • Conclusion.
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