Leibniz On Causation And Agency
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Author | : Julia Jorati |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2017-07-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107192676 |
A fresh and thorough exploration of Leibniz's often controversial theories, including his thought on teleology, contingency, freedom, and moral responsibility.
Author | : Julia Jorati |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | : 9781108137898 |
Author | : Randolph Clarke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199347522 |
Besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. This book offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing questions of metaphysics, agency, and moral responsibility.
Author | : Gregory Ganssle |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000530728 |
This book discusses various aspects of God’s causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much disagreement about the details of divine activity. The chapters in this book fruitfully explore these disagreements about divine causation. The chapters are divided into two sections. The first explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. The second section addresses a variety of contemporary issues related to God’s causal activity. These chapters include defenses of the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation. Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and metaphysics.
Author | : James M. Ambury |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1119746892 |
In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world. Illustrates how the articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdom Questions how we might convey the love of wisdom as not only a body of dogmatic principles and axiomatic truths but also a lived exercise that can be practiced Offers a collection of essays on an emerging field of philosophical research Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars of philosophy, moral philosophy, and pedagogy; also business and professional people who have an interest in expanding their horizons
Author | : Christian Kanzian |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110328976 |
The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy. Our project is motivated by the observation that the historical roots of Islamic and of Western Philosophy are very similar. Thus some of the articles in this volume are dedicated to the history of philosophy, in Islamic thinking as well as in Western traditions. But the dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy is not only an historical issue, it also has systematic relevance for actual philosophical questions. The topic Substance and Attribute particularly has an important history in both traditions; and it has systematic relevance for the actual ontological debate. The volume includes contributions (among others) by Hans Burkhardt, Hans Kraml, Muhammad Legenhausen, Michal Loux, Pedro Schmechtig, Muhammad Shomali, Erwin Tegtmeier, and Daniel von Wachter.
Author | : Julia Jorati |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190925515 |
"This volume examines some of the main twists and turns in the fascinating history of the philosophical concept of powers or dispositions. It focuses on what one might call the metaphysical sense of 'powers'-that is, the powers that are invoked in the explanation of natural changes and activities. The volume's chapters discuss, among others, the philosophical views of Anaxagoras, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ibn Gabirol, Avicenna, Abelard, Anselm, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, René Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Margaret Cavendish, Ralph Cudworth, Henry More, John Locke, David Hume, Thomas Reid, Mary Shepherd, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, David Lewis, David Armstrong, and George Molnar. In addition, the volume contains four short reflection essays that examine the concept of powers from the perspective of disciplines other than philosophy, namely, history of music, West African religions, history of chemistry, and history of art"--
Author | : Larry M. Jorgensen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191023973 |
Larry M. Jorgensen provides a systematic reappraisal of Leibniz's philosophy of mind, revealing the full metaphysical background that allowed Leibniz to see farther than most of his contemporaries. In recent philosophy much effort has been put into discovering a naturalized theory of mind. Leibniz's efforts to reach a similar goal three hundred years earlier offer a critical stance from which we can assess our own theories. But while the goals might be similar, the content of Leibniz's theory significantly diverges from that of today's thought. Perhaps surprisingly, Leibniz's theological commitments yielded a thoroughgoing naturalizing methodology: the properties of an object are explicable in terms of the object's nature. Larry M. Jorgensen shows how this methodology led Leibniz to a fully natural theory of mind.
Author | : Omri Boehm |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199354804 |
Contemporary philosophers frequently assume that Kant never seriously engaged with Spinoza or Spinozism-certainly not before the break of Der Pantheismusstreit, or within the Critique of Pure Reason. Offering an alternative reading of key pre-critical texts and to some of the Critique's most central chapters, Omri Boehm challenges this common assumption. He argues that Kant not only is committed to Spinozism in early essays such as "The One Possible Basis" and "New Elucidation," but also takes up Spinozist metaphysics as Transcendental Realism's most consistent form in the Critique of Pure Reason. The success -- or failure -- of Kant's critical projects must be evaluated in this light. Boehm here examines The Antinomies alongside Spinoza's Substance Monism and his theory of freedom. Similarly, he analyzes the refutation of the Ontological Argument in parallel with Spinoza's Causa-sui. More generally, Boehm places the Critique of Pure Reason's separation of Thought from Being and Is from Ought in dialogue with the Ethics' collapse of Being, Is and Ought into Thought.
Author | : Mark Sinclair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198844581 |
Looking at the work of Feĺix Ravaisson, France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the 19th century, Sinclair offers a study of Ravaisson's masterpiece 'Of Habit' (1838) in its intellectual context, and demonstrates its continued importance for contemporary thought.