Tad M Schmaltz

Efficient Causation: A History - Oxford Philosophical Concepts Tad M Schmaltz

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery (or invention) in ancient Greece, through its development in late antiquity, the medieval period, and modern philosophy, to its use in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. Biographical Note: 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), RadicalCartesianism (Cambridge, 2002), and Descartes on Causation (Oxford, 2008). Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction to Efficient Causation / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Part I. Ancient and Medieval -- 1. Aristotle and the Discovery of Efficient Causatiom / Thomas M. Tuozzo -- Reflection: Representations of Efficient Causation in the Riad Tobias Myers -- 2. Efficient Causation in the Stoic Tradition / R. J. Hankinson -- 3. Efficient Causation in Late Antiquity and the Earlier Medieval Era / Ian Wilks -- 4. Efficient Causation: From Ibn Sina to Ockham / Kara Richardson -- Reflection: Efficient Causation and Musical Inspiration / Anna Harwell Celenza -- Part II. Modern -- 5. Efficient Causation: From Suarez to Descartes / Tad M. Schmaltz -- 6. Efficient Causation in Spinoza and Leibniz / Martin Lin -- Reflection: Reason, Calculating Machines, and Efficient Causation / Matthew L. Jones -- 7. Efficient Causation in Malebranche and Berkeley / Lisa Downing -- 8. Efficient Causation in Hume / P. J. E. Kail -- 9. Efficient Causation in Kant / Eric Watkins -- Part III. Contemporary -- 10. Contemporary Efficient Causation: Humean Themes / Douglas Ehring -- Reflection: Efficient Causation in Art / Tina Rivers Ryan -- 11. Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian Themes / Stephen Mumford -- Bibliography -- Index.