Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Sebastian Bender;Dominik Perler;; Dominik Perler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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
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