Causation and laws of nature in early modern philosophy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ott, Walter R. (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Θέματα: Αιτιότητα; Φιλοσοφία της φύσης; Αναγκαιότητα (Φιλοσοφία); Νόμος της φύσης.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.