Leibniz on Causation and Agency
Author: Julia Jorati
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781108137898
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Author: Julia Jorati
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781108137898
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1107192676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh and thorough exploration of Leibniz's often controversial theories, including his thought on teleology, contingency, freedom, and moral responsibility.
Author: Randolph Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0199347522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBesides 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
Published: 2021-12-30
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1000530728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1119746892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Mark Sinclair
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-10-24
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0192583018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeing Inclined is the first book-length study in English of the work of Félix Ravaisson, France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mark Sinclair shows how Ravaisson, in his great work Of Habit (1838), understands habit as tendency and inclination in a way that provides the basis for a philosophy of nature and a general metaphysics. In examining Ravaisson's ideas against the background of the history of philosophy, and in the light of later developments in French thought, Sinclair shows how Ravaisson gives an original account of the nature of habit as inclination, within a metaphysical framework quite different to those of his predecessors in the philosophical tradition. Being Inclined sheds new light on the history of modern French philosophy and argues for the importance of the neglected nineteenth-century French spiritualist tradition. It also shows that Ravaisson's philosophy of inclination, of being-inclined, is of great import for contemporary philosophy, and particularly for the contemporary metaphysics of powers given that ideas about tendency have recently come to prominence in discussions concerning dispositions, laws, and the nature of causation. Being Inclined therefore offers a detailed and faithful contextualist study of Ravaisson's masterpiece, demonstrating its continued importance for contemporary thought.
Author: Larry M. Jorgensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0191023973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLarry 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
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0199354804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary 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
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0198844581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking 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.
Author: Charles Landesman
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780268034115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandesman claims that dualism must be preferred to materialism. The self cannot be reduced to the body, even although in some ways dependent on it.