The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, 1637-1739

Kenneth C. Clatterbaugh

Language: English

Publisher: Routledge

Published: Jul 15, 1999

Description:

The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book specifically explores the two dominant approaches to causation as a metaphysical problem and as a scientific problem.