Efficient Causation: A History

Causation is now commonly supposed to involve a succession that instantiates some law-like regularity. Efficient Causation: A History examines how our modern notion developed from a very different understanding of efficient causation. This volume begins with Aristotle's initial conception of
efficient causation, and then considers the transformations and reconsiderations of this conception in late antiquity, medieval and modern philosophy, ending with contemporary accounts of causation. It includes four short Reflections that explore the significance of the concept for literature, the
history of music, the history of science, and contemporary art theory.


Author: Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/31/2014
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780199782178

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1513

About the Author

Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published articles and book chapters on various topics in early modern philosophy, and is the author of Malebranche's Theory of the Soul (Oxford, 1996), Radical
Cartesianism (Cambridge, 2002), and Descartes on Causation (Oxford, 2008).

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