Causality and Mind
Essays on Early Modern Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199669554
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 240x162x24 mm
- Weight 592 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy. They focus on two main themes: the debate over the nature of causality; and the issues posed by Descartes' innovations in the philosophy of mind. Together, they show that philosophers in the period are systematic critics of their contemporaries and predecessors.
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Causality and Mind presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy, which focus on two main themes. One theme is the continuing debate over the nature of causality in the period from Descartes to Hume. Jolley shows that, despite his revolutionary stance, Descartes did no serious re-thinking about causality; it was left to his unorthodox disciple Malebranche to argue that there is no place for natural causality in the new mechanistic picture of the physical world. Several essays explore critical reactions to Malebranche's occasionalism in the writings of Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume, and show how in their different ways Leibniz and Hume respond to Malebranche by re-instating the traditional view that science is the search for causes. A second theme of the volume is the set of issues posed by Descartes' innovations in the philosophy of mind. It is argued that Malebranche is once again a pivotal figure. In opposition to Descartes Malebranche insists that ideas, the objects of thought, are not psychological but abstract entities; he thus opposes Descartes' 'dustbin theory of the mind'. Malebranche also challenges Descartes' assumption that intentionality is a mark of the mental and his commitment to the superiority of self-knowledge over knowledge of body. Other essays discuss the debate over innate ideas, Locke's polemics against Descartes' theory of mind, and the issue of Leibniz's phenomenalism. A major aim of the volume is to show that philosophers in the period are systematic critics of their contemporaries and predecessors.
Nicholas Jolley is an exemplary scholar and a highly engaging writer.
Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
SCIENTIA AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN DESCARTES
DESCARTES AND THE ACTION OF BODY ON MIND
INTELLECT AND ILLUMINATION IN MALEBRANCHE
SENSATION, INTENTIONALITY, AND ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS: MALEBRANCHE'S THEORY OF THE MIND
MALEBRANCHE ON THE SOUL
OCCASIONALISM AND EFFICACIOUS LAWS IN MALEBRANCHE
LEIBNIZ AND MALEBRANCHE ON INNATE IDEAS
LEIBNIZ AND THE EXCELLENCE OF MINDS
LEIBNIZ AND OCCASIONALISM
CAUSALITY AND CREATION IN LEIBNIZ
LEIBNIZ AND THE CAUSAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUBSTANCES
LEIBNIZ AND PHENOMENALISM
LOCKEAN ABSTRACTIONISM VERSUS CARTESIAN NATIVISM
DULL SOULS AND BEASTS: TWO ANTI-CARTESIAN POLEMICS IN LOCKE
BEREKELEY, MALEBRANCHE, AND VISION IN GOD
BERKELEY AND MALEBRANCHE ON CAUSALITY AND CREATION
HUME, MALEBRANCHE, AND THE LAST OCCULT QUALITY
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