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      Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy
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      Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy

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      Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy book

      Edited ByDominik Perler, Sebastian Bender
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 7 August 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315146539
      Pages 368
      eBook ISBN 9781315146539
      Subjects Humanities
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      Perler, D., & Bender, S. (Eds.). (2019). Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315146539

      ABSTRACT

      This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern philosophy. The standard historical narrative suggests that early modern thinkers abandoned Aristotelian models of formal causation in favor of doctrines that appealed to relations of efficient causation between material objects and cognizers. This narrative has been criticized in recent scholarship from at least two directions. Scholars have emphasized that we should not think of the Aristotelian tradition in such monolithic terms, and that many early modern thinkers did not unequivocally reduce all causation to efficient causation.

      In line with this general approach, this book features original essays written by leading experts in early modern philosophy. It is organized around five guiding questions:

      • What are the entities involved in causal processes leading to cognition?
      • What type(s) or kind(s) of causality are at stake? Are early modern thinkers confined to efficient causation or do other types of causation play a role?
      • What is God's role in causal processes leading to cognition?
      • How do cognitive causal processes relate to other, non-cognitive causal processes?
      • Is the causal process in the case of human cognition in any way special? How does it relate to processes involved in the case of non-human cognition?

      The essays explore how fifteen early modern thinkers answered these questions: Francisco Suárez, René Descartes, Louis de la Forge, Géraud de Cordemoy, Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ralph Cudworth, Margaret Cavendish, John Locke, John Sergeant, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Thomas Reid. The volume is unique in that it explores both well-known and understudied historical figures, and in that it emphasizes the intimate relationship between causation and cognition to open up new perspectives on early modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |17 pages

      Introduction

      ByDominik Perler, Sebastian Bender

      chapter 1|21 pages

      Suárez on Intellectual Cognition and Occasional Causation

      ByDominik Perler

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Descartes on the Causal Structure of Cognition

      ByAlison Simmons

      chapter 3|22 pages

      Cartesian Causation and Cognition

      Louis de la Forge and Géraud de Cordemoy
      ByTad M. Schmaltz

      chapter 4|22 pages

      Causation and Cognition in Malebranche

      ByStephan Schmid

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Ralph Cudworth

      Plastic Nature, Cognition, and the Cognizable World
      BySarah Hutton

      chapter 6|22 pages

      Nothing Is Simply One Thing

      Conway on Multiplicity in Causation and Cognition
      ByJulia Borcherding

      chapter 7|26 pages

      Cavendish on Material Causation and Cognition

      ByDavid Cunning

      chapter 8|23 pages

      The Mechanical Mind

      Hobbes on Sense Cognition and Imagination
      ByMartine Pécharman

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Knowing Mind Through Knowing Body

      Spinoza on Causal Knowledge of the Self and the External World
      ByDaniel Garber

      chapter 10|21 pages

      The Many Faces of Spinoza’s Causal Axiom

      ByMartin Lin

      chapter 11|19 pages

      Locke on Causation and Cognition

      ByJennifer Marušić

      chapter 12|22 pages

      Embodied Cognition Without Causal Interaction in Leibniz

      ByJulia Jorati

      chapter 13|21 pages

      John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand on the Occasional Cause of Cognition

      ByHan Thomas Adriaenssen

      chapter 14|22 pages

      Berkeley on Causation, Ideas, and Necessary Connections

      BySebastian Bender

      chapter 15|14 pages

      Hume and “Reason as a Kind of Cause”

      ByP. J. E. Kail

      chapter 16|17 pages

      Reid on Intentionality and Causation

      ByJames Van Cleve
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