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Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy

por Ott, Walter R.

Publicado por : Oxford University Press (Oxford (Oxfordshire, Inglaterra)) Detalles físicos: xii, 260 páginas ISBN:199570434; 9780199570430.

Tema(s): Causalidad | Derecho natural | Filosofía de la naturaleza | Filosofía | Necesidad (Filosofía)

Año : 2009

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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.