Substantiality and Causality
This book addresses contemporary problems on substantiality and causality. After presenting rival approaches to substantiality and causality-¬a traditional, ontological view vs. a transcendental one-it presents studies of substance as showing causal aspects and of causality, showing its reference to...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; v. 60. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33455727*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Editorial Introduction; Part I Substantiality and Causality
- Dierent Approaches; Substantiality and Causality. Classical and Transcendental Approach; Part II Causal Aspects of Substance; Remarks on the Ontology of Living Beings and the Causality of their Behavior; Two arguments for the ontological difference between corporeal and psychic reality; The somatic as symptom of the psychic; An example for the causality of the psychic as such; A general model proposal: psychophysical causality through favor; Tropes, Causal Processes and Functional Laws; Introduction.
- Consciousness and the worldThe Common Cause Principle as a special case of the Principle of Sucient Reason; Introduction; Reichenbach's formulation and its variants; Apparent counterexamples; Arguments from conservation principles; The "sea levels vs. bread prices" arguments; The EPR correlations; Conclusion: Principle of Suffcient Reason revisited; Part IV Extension as a Constituent of Substance and Causality; Causality and Time. Some Remarks on Bergson's Metaphysics; Introduction; Causality and space; Non-spatiality and temporality of consciousness.
- Quantity tropes: the basic constituents of objectsFunctional laws; Tropes and causal processes; Conclusion; Forms of Judgment as a Link between Mind and the Concepts of Substance and Cause; Introduction; The original unity of self-consciousness (Kant); The logical deduction of the primitive forms of judgment from the original unity of self-consciousness (Kant); Concept; Judgment; Objective validity of the concepts of substance and cause; "I am a Force"
- An Attempt of Ontological Interpretation of Ingarden's Metaphor; The metaphor of force in the essay Man and Time.
- The philosophical concept of forceThe possibility of application of the concept of force to Ingarden's ontology; Part III Substantialistic Background of Causation; The Causal Structure of the World in Ingarden's Ontology; The causal typology of events and their notation; Determinism and the poles of the real world; Causal life of monads and other systems; The problem of chance; Freedom in relatively isolated systems; Conclusion; The Case for Agent-Causation; Symbols; Conventions; A picture of the causation of physical events as viewed in 19th-century physics.
- Three alternative pictures of the causation of physical events as viewed in 20th-century physicsCentral agent-causal concepts; A sucient and agent-causal analysis of an action
- of raising one's arm; Nine insucient analyses of raising one's arm; Deviant causal chains?; Causal responsibility and moral responsibility; Illustrations; Seven objections to agent-causation answered; Agent-causation and freedom of the will; The way from freely willed behaviour to agent-causation; Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causality; The problem(s); Intentionality; Formal causality in cognition.
