Efficient Causation: A History by Schmaltz, Tad M.

Efficient Causation: A History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199782178)

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Efficient Causation: A History by Schmaltz, Tad M.

Efficient Causation: A History

$48.99
Efficient Causation: A History by Schmaltz, Tad M.

Efficient Causation: A History

$48.99
Format: Paperback
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Causation is now commonly supposed to involve a succession that instantiates some law-like regularity. Efficient Causation: A History examines how our modern notion developed from a very different understanding of efficient causation. This volume begins with Aristotle's initial conception of efficient causation, and then considers the transformations and reconsiderations of this conception in late antiquity, medieval and modern philosophy, ending with contemporary accounts of causation. It includes four short "Reflections" that explore the significance of the concept for literature, the history of music, the history of science, and contemporary art theory.

Author: Tad M. Schmaltz
ISBN-10: 0199782172
ISBN-13: 9780199782178
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2014
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.90d

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Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1513
By Tad M. Schmaltz
By Tad M. Schmaltz
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Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published articles and book chapters on various topics in early modern philosophy, and is the author of Malebranche's Theory of the Soul (Oxford, 1996), Radical Cartesianism (Cambridge, 2002), and Descartes on Causation (Oxford, 2008).

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