- Publisher's listprice GBP 145.00
-
65 467 Ft (62 350 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 6 547 Ft off)
- Discounted price 58 921 Ft (56 115 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
65 467 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 November 2014
- ISBN 9780199782185
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 145x218x27 mm
- Weight 649 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery (or invention) in Ancient Greece, through its development in late antiquity, the medieval period, and modern philosophy, to its use in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.
MoreLong description:
Causation is now commonly supposed to involve a succession that instantiates some law-like regularity. Efficient Causation: A History examines how our modern notion developed from a very different understanding of efficient causation. This volume begins with Aristotle's initial conception of efficient causation, and then considers the transformations and reconsiderations of this conception in late antiquity, medieval and modern philosophy, ending with contemporary accounts of causation. It includes four short "Reflections" that explore the significance of the concept for literature, the history of music, the history of science, and contemporary art theory.
The volume showcases crucial elements that at one point or another entered into philosophical views of efficient causation. It provides a useful framework for taking a fresh look at existing work on causation... This Oxford Philosophical Concepts anthology represents a great first step toward a better, historically situated, understanding of efficient causation. As such it is a welcome addition to the philosophical literature.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Tad M. Schmaltz
Part I Ancient and Medieval
1. Aristotle and the Discovery of Efficient Causation, Thomas M. Tuozzo
Reflection: Representations of Efficient Causation in the Iliad, Tobias Myers
2. Efficient Causation in the Stoic Tradition, R. J. Hankinson
3. Efficient Causation in Late Antiquity and the Earlier Medieval Era, Ian Wilks
4. Efficient Causation: From Ibn Sina to Ockham, Kara Richardson
Reflection: Efficient Causation and Musical Inspiration, Anna Harwell Celenza
Part II Modern
5. Efficient Causation: From Suárez to Descartes, Tad M. Schmaltz
6. Efficient Causation in Spinoza and Leibniz, Martin Lin
Reflection: Reason, Calculating Machines and Efficient Causation, Matthew L. Jones
7. Efficient Causation in Malebranche and Berkeley, Lisa Downing
8. Efficient Causation in Hume, P. J. E. Kail
9. Efficient Causation in Kant, Eric Watkins
Part III Contemporary
10. Contemporary Efficient Causation: Humean Themes, Douglas Ehring
Reflection:Efficient Causation in Art, Tina Rivers
11. Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian Themes, Stephen Mumford
Bibliography
Pre-20th-Century Sources
20th- and 21st-Century Literature
Index
