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Author | : Gloria Frost |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1009225421 |
Download Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book reconstructs and analyses Aquinas's theories of efficient causation and causal powers.
Author | : Tad M. Schmaltz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199782172 |
Download Efficient Causation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Jonathan D. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198796579 |
Download Causal Powers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Causal powers are ubiquitous. Electrons are negatively charged; they have the power to repel other electrons. Water is a solvent; it has the power to dissolve salt. We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, abilities, and so on-to describe the world around us, both in everyday life and in scientific practice. But what is it about the world that makes such descriptions apt? This collection brings together new and important work by both emerging scholars and those who helped shape the field on the nature of causal powers, and the connections between causal powers and other phenomena within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. Contributors discuss how one who takes causal powers to be in some sense irreducible should think about laws of nature, scientific practice, causation, modality, space and time, persistence, and the metaphysics of mind.
Author | : R.D. Ingthorsson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2021-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000361039 |
Download A Powerful Particulars View of Causation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science. Recently, there has been a dramatic revival of realist approaches to properties and causation, which focus on the relevance of Aristotelian metaphysics and the notion of powers for a scientifically informed view of causation. In this book, R.D. Ingthorsson argues that one central feature of powers-based accounts of causation is arguably incompatible with what is today recognised as fact in the sciences, notably that all interactions are thoroughly reciprocal. Ingthorsson’s powerful particulars view of causation accommodates for the reciprocity of interactions. It also draws out the consequences of that view for issue of causal necessity and offers a way to understand the constitution and persistence of compound objects as causal phenomena. Furthermore, Ingthorsson argues that compound entities, so understood, are just as much processes as they are substances. A Powerful Particulars View of Causation will be of great interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, and neo-Aristotelian philosophy, while also being accessible for a general audience. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003094241, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author | : Michael J. Dodds |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813219892 |
Download Unlocking Divine Action Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a sustained account of how the thought of Aquinas may be used in conjunction with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of divine action and address such issues as creation, providence, prayer, and miracles.
Author | : W. Norris Clarke, S.J. |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0268077045 |
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When it is taught today, metaphysics is often presented as a fragmented view of philosophy that ignores the fundamental issues of its classical precedents. Eschewing these postmodern approaches, W. Norris Clarke finds an integrated vision of reality in the wisdom of Aquinas and here offers a contemporary version of systematic metaphysics in the Thomistic tradition. The One and the Many presents metaphysics as an integrated whole which draws on Aquinas' themes, structure, and insight without attempting to summarize his work. Although its primary inspiration is the philosophy of St. Thomas himself, it also takes into account significant contributions not only of later philosophers but also of those developments in modern science that have philosophical bearing, from the Big Bang to evolution.
Author | : Ignacio Silva |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000437418 |
Download Providence and Science in a World of Contingency Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysical doctrine of providence coupled with his account of natural contingency. By looking at the history of debates over providence and nature, the volume provides a set of criteria to evaluate providential divine action models, challenging the underlying, theologically contentious assumptions of current discussions on divine providential action. Such assumptions include that God needs causally open spaces in the created world in order to act in it providentially, and the unfitting conclusion that, if this is the case, then God is assumed to act as another cause among causes. In response to these shortcomings, the book presents a comprehensive account of Aquinas’ metaphysics of natural causation, contingency, and their relation to divine providence. It offers a fresh and bold metaphysical narrative, based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, which appreciates the relation between divine providence and natural contingency.
Author | : Nicholas Austin |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1626164738 |
Download Aquinas on Virtue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.
Author | : Francis Xavier Meehan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Efficient Causality in Aristotle and St. Thomas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Michael Osborne |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813221781 |
Download Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham