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Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives

Reconsidering Causal Powers: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives

Hill, Benjamin
Lagerlund, Henrik
Psillo, Stathis

Hardcover

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0198869525
ISBN13: 9780198869528
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 18 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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