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Reconsidering Causal Powers - Historical and Conceptual Perspectives (Hardcover, 1)
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Reconsidering Causal Powers - Historical and Conceptual Perspectives (Hardcover, 1)
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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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