"Nisi Temere Agat"

Author: Erik Åkerlund
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ISBN: 9789150622485
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Languages : en
Pages : 159

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"Nisi Temere Agat"

Author: Erik Åkerlund
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ISBN: 9789150622485
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Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Laws of Nature

Laws of Nature PDF Author: Walter Ott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191063711
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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What is the origin of the concept of a law of nature? How much does it owe to theology and metaphysics? To what extent do the laws of nature permit contingency? Are there exceptions to the laws of nature? Is it possible to give a reductive analysis of lawhood, or is it a primitive? Twelve new essays by an international team of leading philosophers take up these and other central questions on the laws of nature, whilst also examining some of the most important intuitions and assumptions that have guided the debate over laws of nature since the concepts invention in the seventeenth century. Laws of Nature spans the history of philosophy and of science, contemporary metaphysics, and contemporary philosophy of science.

The Bright Dark Ages

The Bright Dark Ages PDF Author: Arun Bala
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004264191
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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The European 'dark ages' in the millennium 500 to 1500 CE was a bright age of scientific achievements in China, India and the Middle East. The contributors to this volume address the implications of this seminal era of Asian science for comparative and connective science studies. Although such studies have generally adopted a binary perspective focusing on one or another of the Asian (Chinese, Indian, Islamic) civilizations, this study brings them together into a single volume within a wider Eurasian perspective. Moreover, by drawing together historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions into one volume it promotes a richer understanding of how Eurasian connections and comparisons in the millennium preceding the modern era can illuminate the birth and growth of modern science. Contributors are Arun Bala, Andrew Brennan, James Robert Brown, George Gheverghese Joseph, Henrik Lagerlund, Norva Y.S. Lo, Roddam Narasimha, Hyunhee Park, Franklin Thomas Perkins, Hans Pols, Kapil Raj, Sundar Sarukkai, Mohd. Hazim Shah, Geir Sigurðsson and Cecilia Wee.

The Moral Person of the State

The Moral Person of the State PDF Author: Ben Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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A new history of the idea of the modern state and its 'personality', showing the centrality of Pufendorf to its development and propagation.

Suárez on Aristotelian Causality

Suárez on Aristotelian Causality PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004292160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Suárez on Aristotelian Causality offers the first comprehensive account of Francisco Suárez’s position with respect to the four Aristotelian causes in his Metaphysical Disputations. Suárez deals with these causes in the greater part of Metaphysical Disputations 12–27 approximately a third of his famous work on metaphysics. Nevertheless, no previous attempt at analysis of causality as a part of his overall metaphysical position has been offered. The material, formal, efficient and final cause as understood by Suárez each receives a chapter in this volume just as his general account of causality is considered. This should be relevant to anyone interested in the role and pertinence of Aristotelian causality for Suárez’s metaphysics. Contributors (in order of appearance) are Jakob Leth Fink, Erik Åkerlund, Kara Richardson, Stephan Schmid and Sydney Penner.

Reconsidering Causal Powers

Reconsidering Causal Powers PDF Author: Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192640925
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume, distinguished scholars revisit the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles within the theories of substance and cause across history. Each chapter focuses on the philosophical roles causal powers were thought to play at the time, and the reasons offered in support, or against, their coherence and ability to perform these roles. By placing rigorous philosophical analyses of thinking about causal powers within their historical contexts, features of their natures which might remain hidden to contemporary practitioners can be more readily identified and more carefully analyzed. The thoughts of such prominent philosophers as Aristotle, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan are explored, then on through Suarez, Descartes, and Malebranche, to Locke and Hume, and ultimately to contemporary figures like the logical positivists Goodman and Lewis.

T. Macci Plauti Trinummus. With notes critical and exegetical by W. Wagner

T. Macci Plauti Trinummus. With notes critical and exegetical by W. Wagner PDF Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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T. Macci Plauti Trinummus with notes by W. Wagner

T. Macci Plauti Trinummus with notes by W. Wagner PDF Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus

The Captives and Trinummus of Plautus PDF Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The Trinvmmvs of Plautus

The Trinvmmvs of Plautus PDF Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
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Category : Latin drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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