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Author: Tad M. Schmaltz (Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow, Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 4.80cm
, Length: 20.10cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780199782178
ISBN 10: 0199782172
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 13 November 2014
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[E]ach contributor provides an expert treatment of a chapter in the history of efficient causation, and the book as a whole gives a useful framework to reflect historically on a key philosophical concept. Andrea Falcon, Journal of the History of Philosophy Does the volume achieve these big-picture goals? Yes, for the most part. The quality of the scholarship is very high without being unapproachable, the volume lays out a detailed and insightful history of its target concept, and the Reflections are engaging and thought provoking...volume succeeds admirably in its stated goals...Efficient Causation is a history of causation written for metaphysicians. By those lights, it is excellent. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Does the volume achieve these big-picture goals? Yes, for the most part. The quality of the scholarship is very high without being unapproachable, the volume lays out a detailed and insightful history of its target concept, and the Reflections are engaging and thought provoking...volume succeeds admirably in its stated goals...Efficient Causation is a history of causation written for metaphysicians. By those lights, it is excellent. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Does the volume achieve these big-picture goals? Yes, for the most part. The quality of the scholarship is very high without being unapproachable, the volume lays out a detailed and insightful history of its target concept, and the Reflections are engaging and thought provoking volume succeeds admirably in its stated goalsEfficient Causation is a history of causation written for metaphysicians. By those lights, it is excellent. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Author Information
Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published articles and book chapters on various topics in early modern philosophy, and is the author of Malebranche's Theory of the Soul (Oxford, 1996), Radical Cartesianism (Cambridge, 2002), and Descartes on Causation (Oxford, 2008).
