The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book specifically explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 The Debate; Chapter 2 Descartes: The Metaphysics of Causation; Chapter 3 Descartes: The Epistemology of Causation; Chapter 4 Classical Mechanism: Hobbes and Gassendi; Chapter 5 The Temptation of Occasionalism: Le Grand and Malebranche; Chapter 6 Causes and Sufficient Reason: Spinoza and Leibniz; Chapter 7 The Limits of Classical Mechanism: Boyle, Rohault, and Newton; Chapter 8 The Attempted Alignment of Philosophy and Physics: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume; Chapter 9 Summation and Final Ironies;
