Descartes on Causation
ISBN: 9780199958504 | 0199958505
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/1/2013
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This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument presented here is that even though Descartes offered a dualistic ontology that differs radically from what we find in scholasticism, his views on causation were profoundly influenced by scholastic thought on this issue. This influence is evident not only in his affirmation in the Meditations of the abstract scholastic axioms that a cause must contain t... MORE
| The Scholastic Context | |
| Two Casual Axioms | |
| Causation in Physics | |
| Causation in Psychology | |
| Causation and Freedom | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan.
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