Author Description

Galileo: Reflections On Failure / David Wootton -- Primary And Secondary Causes In Descartes' Physics / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Causation And The Cartesian Reduction Of Motion: God's Role In Grinding The Gears / William Eaton, Robert Higgerson -- Spinoza's Conatus As An Essence-preserving, Attribute-neutral Immanent Cause: Toward A New Interpretation Of Attributes And Modes / Eric Schliesser -- Are Mind-body Relations Natural And Intelligible? Some Early Modern Perspectives / Pauline Phemister -- Hobbes's Redefinition Of The Commonwealth / Timothy Stanton -- Hume, Causal Realism, And Free Will / Peter Millican -- Pouring New Wine Into Old Skin: The Meaning Of Hume's Necessary Connexions / Constantine Sandis -- Is Causation A Relation? / Boris Hennig -- Kant On Causal Knowledge: Causality, Mechanism, And Reflective Judgment / Angela Breitenbach -- Regularities All The Way Down: Thomas Brown's Philosophy Of Causation / Stathis Psillos -- Causality And Causal Induction: The Necessarian Theory Of Lady Mary Shepherd / Martha Brandt Bolton. Edited By Keith Allen And Tom Stoneham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.