Reconsidering Causal Powers
Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 February 2021
- ISBN 9780198869528
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 240x165x25 mm
- Weight 634 g
- Language English 138
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Short description:
Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science to fill explanatory gaps seen to be left by reductivist and eliminativist accounts of previous generations. This volume revisits the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles across history to foster deeper discussions about their metaphysical natures
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Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume, distinguished scholars revisit the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles within the theories of substance and cause across history. Each chapter focuses on the philosophical roles causal powers were thought to play at the time, and the reasons offered in support, or against, their coherence and ability to perform these roles. By placing rigorous philosophical analyses of thinking about causal powers within their historical contexts, features of their natures which might remain hidden to contemporary practitioners can be more readily identified and more carefully analyzed. The thoughts of such prominent philosophers as Aristotle, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan are explored, then on through Suarez, Descartes, and Malebranche, to Locke and Hume, and ultimately to contemporary figures like the logical positivists Goodman and Lewis.
an engaging and provocative mix of conceptual and historical analysis.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Inherence and Directedness of Powers
Powers, Possibilities and Time: Notes for a Program
Aristotelian Powers, Mechanism, and Final Causes in the Late Middle Ages
Agency, Force, and Inertia in Descartes and Hobbes
The Ontological Status of Causal Powers: Substances, Modes, and Humeanism
The Case Against Powers
The Return of Causal Powers?
Qualities, Powers, and Bare Powers in Locke
Hume on Causation and Causal Powers
Resurgent Powers and the Failure of Conceptual Analysis
Causal Powers and Structures
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