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Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy / Walter Ott |
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Oxford, New York, Auckland [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
, 2009 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XII-260 p.) |
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Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy |
- P. 1
- Introduction
- P. 5
- Themes
- P. 5
- The origin and status of laws of nature
- P. 10
- The ontology of powers
- P. 12
- Necessity
- P. 14
- Models of causation
- P. 16
- Plan of the book
- P. 20
- The Aristotelian background
- P. 20
- Necessity
- P. 27
- The ontology of relations
- P. 30
- Manifest and occult qualities
- Part I : The Cartesian predicament
- P. 35
- What mechanism isn't
- P. 39
- The rejection of Aristotelianism
- P. 44
- The nude wax : Cartesian ontology
- P. 51
- The laws of nature
- P. 61
- Force
- P. 64
- Occasionalism
- P. 65
- The concurrentist reading
- P. 68
- The argument from laws of nature
- P. 70
- Thoroughgoing occasionalism
- P. 76
- The problem of mental causation
- Part II : The dialectic of occasionalism
- P. 81
- Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation
- P. 82
- The argument from nonsense
- P. 83
- The argument from elimination
- P. 86
- The divine concursus argument
- P. 90
- 'Little souls' revisited
- P. 92
- The 'no necessary connection' argument
- P. 97
- The epistemic argument
- P. 102
- Laws and divine volitions
- P. 102
- The content of divine volitions
- P. 106
- The problem of efficacious laws
- P. 110
- Causation and explanation
- P. 112
- A scholastic mechanism
- P. 120
- Régis against the occasionalists
- Part III : Power and necessity
- P. 135
- A dead cadaverous thing
- P. 140
- Relations and powers
- P. 151
- Boyle's paradox
- P. 157
- Boyle and the concurrentists
- P. 159
- Locke on relations
- P. 170
- Locke on powers : the geometrical model
- P. 177
- Locke's mechanisms
- P. 187
- Conclusion
- Part IV : Hume
- P. 191
- The two Humes
- P. 197
- Intentionality
- P. 199
- Meaning
- P. 200
- Against the positivist reading
- P. 203
- Signification
- P. 206
- Judgment and belief
- P. 208
- Semiotic empiricism
- P. 210
- Relative ideas
- P. 215
- The argument from nonsense
- P. 219
- Necessity
- P. 219
- Finding Hume's target
- P. 222
- Against the cognitive and geometrical models
- P. 226
- The neighboring fields
- P. 228
- The practicality requirement
- P. 230
- Relations
- P. 230
- The status of relations
- P. 232
- Two kinds of relations
- P. 235
- The nature of necessity
- P. 238
- The definition of causation
- P. 238
- The problem
- P. 240
- Subjectivism or projectivism ?
- P. 247
- Conclusion