商品簡介
The British Society for the History of Philosophy held the conference Causation: 1500-2000 in March 2008 at the University of York, in Yorkshire. These 12 essays from that conference chart the development of modern thinking about causation through three periods: the 17th century and the legacies of Aristotelian and Cartesian theories; Hume; and post-Humean developments. Among the topics are primary and secondary causes in Descartes' physics, Spinoza's conatus as an essence-preserving attribute-neutral immanent cause, Hobbes' redefinition of the commonwealth, the meaning of Hume's necessary connexions, Kant on causal knowledge, and the necessetarian theory of Lady Mary Shepherd. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Tom Stoneham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York.
Keith Allen is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.
