Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy

ISBN: 9780199664689 出版年：2009 页码：273 Ott, Walter Oxford University Press

Introduction PART I: THE CARTESIAN PREDICAMENT 1. What mechanism isn't 2. The rejection of Aristotelianism 3. The nude wax: Cartesian ontology 4. The laws of nature 5. Force 6. Occasionalism PART II: THE DIALECTIC OF OCCASIONALISM 7. Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation 8. Laws and divine volitions 9. Causation and explanation 10. A scholastic mechanism 11. Regis against the occasionalists PART III: POWER AND NECESSITY 12. 'A dead cadaverous thing' 13. Relations and powers 14. Boyle's paradox 15. Boyle and the concurrentists 16. Locke on relations 17. Locke on powers: The geometrical model 18. Locke's mechanisms 19. Conclusion PART IV: HUME 20. The Two Humes 21. Intentionality 22. Necessity 23. Relations 24. The definition of causation 25. Conclusion