UID:
almahu_9949866049402882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 377 pages).
ISBN:
9781003305316
,
1003305318
,
9781040089750
,
1040089755
,
9781040089774
,
1040089771
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 28
Content:
"This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities. While some prominent early modern accounts of power have been studied in detail, this volume covers lesser-known thinkers and several early modern women philosophers. The volume also investigates early modern accounts of powers and abilities in a more systematic fashion than has been previously done. By broadening its scope in these ways, the volume uncovers trends and tendencies in early modern thinking about powers and abilities that are easy to miss. The chapters explore how twenty-two early modern thinkers approached the following questions: -What kind of entities are powers and abilities? Are they reducible to something categorical or not? -What is the relation between powers and abilities? Is there a fundamental metaphysical difference between them or not? -How do we know what powers objects have and what abilities agents have? -Are human abilities in any way special? How do they relate to the abilities non-human animals have? And how do they relate to the powers of inanimate objects? Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the history of early modern philosophy, in metaphysics, and in the history of science"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Suárez on Powers and Abilities as Inner Causes -- 2 Real Tendencies: Descartes on Dispositions and Powers in the Material World -- 3 Occasionalism, Powers, and Human Freedom in French Cartesianism -- 4 Sergeant Versus Le Grand on Forms and Causal Power -- 5 Move Your Body! Cavendish on Self-Motion -- 6 Hobbes on Powers, Accidents, and Motions -- 7 Gravity, Occult Qualities, and Newton's Ontology of Powers -- 8 Spinoza on Powers and Abilities -- 9 Locke on the Right Use of Our Abilities
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10 Forces and Abilities in Leibniz -- 11 Du Châtelet on the Powers of Bodies and Minds -- 12 Creatures of Habit: Condillac on the Abilities of Animals -- 13 Moral Competence as a Distinctively Human Ability: Rousseau and Herder -- 14 Watts and Trotter Cockburn on the Power of Thinking -- 15 Mental Faculties and Powers and the Foundations of Hume's Philosophy -- 16 Reid on Powers and Abilities -- 17 Kant on Abilities, Human Freedom, and Complete Determination -- List of Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Powers and abilities in early modern philosophy New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032304847
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003305316
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003305316
