Reconsidering Causal Powers
Historical and Conceptual Perspectives
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 rolescausal 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Lagerlund, Henrik (Hrsg.) / Psillos, Stathis (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-264092-5
- EAN: 9780192640925
- Produktnummer: 35788522
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'377 KB
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Benjamin Hill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. His main areas of research are 16th and 17th metaphysics and epistemology, especially regarding the philosophy of mind and language. He is the editor-in-chief of Locke Studies and most recently the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (2017).Henrik Lagerlund is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Stockholm University. He works primarily on medieval and renaissance philosophy, and has written several articles and books. He is the author of Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and editor of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, second edition (2020).Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics at the University of Athens. He is an editor of Metascience and a founding member and former President of The European Philosophy of Science Association.
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