Causality and causal explanation in Aristotle /
This book aims to answer two main questions about Aristotle's theory of causality and causal explanation, especially in relation to natural science. How does he answer main philosophical questions about causes to which he thinks his predecessors' answers are flawed? How do his answers bear...
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New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Reading (and animating) physics II
- Background 1 : critiques of the predecessors
- Background 2 : science and dialectic
- Physics ii 3 in argumentative context
- The realist challenge
- Causes, kinds, and transformations
- Causal kinds and causal profiles
- Discreteness in agent-patient relations
- Coming to know causes
- Causality and epistemic asymmetries
- The non-secret connexion.