Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy
By: Walter Ott.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199570430
Subjects: Causation; Philosophy of nature; Necessity (Philosophy); Natural law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Themes; title: The origin and status of laws of nature; title: The ontology of powers; title: Necessity; title: Models of causation; title: Plan of the book; title: The Aristotelian background; title: Necessity; title: The ontology of relations; title: Manifest and occult qualities; title: The Cartesian predicament; title: What mechanism isn't; title: The rejection of aristotelianism; title: The nude wax : Cartesian ontology; title: The laws of nature; title: Force; title: Occasionalism; title: The concurrentist reading; title: The argument from laws of nature; title: Thoroughgoing occasionalism; title: The problem of mental causation; title: The dialectic of occasionalism; title: Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation; title: The argument from nonsense; title: The argument from elimination; title: The divine concursus argument; title: Little souls revisited; title: The no necessary connection argument; title: The epistemic argument; title: Laws and divine volitions; title: The content of divine volitions; title: The problem of efficacious laws; title: Causation and explanation; title: A scholastic mechanism; title: Regis against the occasionalists; title: Power and necessity; title: A dead cadaverous thing; title: Relations and powers; title: Boyle's paradox; title: Boyle and the concurrentists; title: Locke on relations; title: Locke on powers : the geometrical model; title: Locke's mechanisms; title: Hume; title: The two humes; title: Intentionality; title: Meaning; title: Against the positivist reading; title: Signification; title: Judgment and belief; title: Semiotic empiricism; title: Relative ideas; title: The argument from nonsense; title: Necessity; title: Finding Hume's target; title: Against the cognitive and geometrical models; title: The neighboring fields; title: The practicality requirement; title: The status of relations; title: Kinds of relations; title: The nature of necessity; title: The definition of causation; title: The problem; title: Subjectivism or projectivism?