Causation and Modern Philosophy

Tom Stoneham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. Keith Allen is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York.

Introduction, Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham 1: Galileo: Reflections on Failure, David Wootton 2: Primary and Secondary Causes In Descartes’s Physics, Tad M. Schmaltz 3: Causation and the Cartesian Reduction of Motion: God’s Role in Grinding the Gears, William Eaton and Robert Higgerson 4: Spinoza’s Conatus as an Essence Preserving, Attribute-Neutral Immanent Cause: Toward a New Interpretation of Attributes and Modes, Eric Schliesser 5: Are Mind-Body Relations Natural And Intelligible? Some Early Modern Perspectives, Pauline Phemister 6: Hobbes’s Redefinition Of The Commonwealth, Timothy Stanton 7: Hume, Causal Realism, and Free Will, Peter Millican 8: Pouring New Wine into Old Skin: The Meaning of Hume’s Necessary Connexions, Constantine Sandis 9: Is Causation a Relation? Boris Hennig 10: Kant on Causal Knowledge: Causality, Mechanism and Reflective Judgment, Angela Breitenbach 11: Regularities All The Way Down: Thomas Brown’s Philosophy of Causation, Stathis Psillos 12: Causality and Causal Induction: The Necessitarian Theory of Lady Mary Shepherd, Martha Brandt Bolton