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Author:   Walter Ott (Virginia Tech)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.388kg
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9780199664689

ISBN 10:   0199664684
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   06 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: The Cartesian predicament 1: What mechanism isn't 2: The rejection of Aristotelianism 3: The nude wax: Cartesian ontology 4: The laws of nature 5: Force 6: Occasionalism Part II: The dialectic of occasionalism 7: Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation 8: Laws and divine volitions 9: Causation and explanation 10: A scholastic mechanism 11: Régis against the occasionalists Part III: Power and necessity 12: 'A dead cadaverous thing' 13: Relations and powers 14: Boyle's paradox 15: Boyle and the concurrentists 16: Locke on relations 17: Locke on powers: The geometrical model 18: Locke's mechanisms 19: Conclusion Part IV: Hume 20: The Two Humes 21: Intentionality 22: Necessity 23: Relations 24: The definition of causation 25: Conclusion

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Review from previous edition a fascinating account of the development of theories of causation and laws of nature in the early modern period ... a great piece of scholarship covering an impressive array of figures. Journal of the History of Philosophy illuminating, rich and intriguing Archiv fuer Geschichte der Philosophie

`Review from previous edition a fascinating account of the development of theories of causation and laws of nature in the early modern period ... a great piece of scholarship covering an impressive array of figures. ' Journal of the History of Philosophy `illuminating, rich and intriguing ' Archiv fuer Geschichte der Philosophie

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Walter Ott holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and is currently assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech.

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