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Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10 - Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics) (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10 - Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics) (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality studies the
interrelated themes of causality and skepticism in contemporary,
early modern and medieval philosophy. Thomas Aquinas's celebrated
proofs of the existence of God (the Five Ways of the Summa
Theologica) rely in part on an Aristotelian notion of synchronous
causality, wherein the things that exist and persist require an
accounting that ultimately terminates in the ongoing activity of a
first mover, as the existence and persistence of an ecosystem is
traceable to the sun. By contrast, in David Hume's early modern
account, causality consists in the regularity of successive events
(a rolling billiard ball's collision with a stationary one is
always followed by the movement of the latter). Moreover, Newtonian
and Einsteinian accounts respectively suggest that motion, once
initiated, requires no explanation. In light of these developments,
the first set of essays in this volume re-evaluates the
Aristotelian paradigm and its relation to modern science,
contending that in some fields (such as ecology, thermodynamics or
information theory) contemporary science still preserves some
intuitions about causality that support Aquinas's
deliberations.Hume's skepticism about causality is heir to late
medieval and early modern development that transformed not only the
notion of causality in general, but also the idea of the causal
connections between our cognitive faculties, God, and the world in
particular, giving rise to extreme, solipsistic forms of
skepticism, such as Descartes' Demon skepticism. The second set of
essays considers whether Aquinas's thought would be susceptible in
some ways to this form of skepticism, and what motivated, just a
couple of generations later, the turn to epistemology already
involving this sort of skepticism.
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