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Title Skepticism, causality and skepticism about causality / edited by Gyula Klima and Alexander W. Hall ; contributors Edward Feser [and four others]
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (85 pages)
Series Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics ; Volume 10
Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics ; Volume 10.
Contents Table of contents; introduction; the medieval principle of motion and the modern principle of inertia; comments on feser's "the medieval principle of motion and the modern principle of inertia ; reply to michael rota; whatever happened to efficient causes?; on klima's "whatever happened to efficient causes? -- reply to michael rota; the turn to epistemology in the fourteenth century; appendix; contributors
Summary Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality studies the interrelated themes of causality and skepticism in contemporary, early modern and medieval philosophy. Thomas Aquinas's celebrated proofs of the existence of God (the Five Ways of the Summa Theologica) rely in part on an Aristotelian notion of synchronous causality, wherein the things that exist and persist require an accounting that ultimately terminates in the ongoing activity of a first mover, as the existence and persistence ..
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 28, 2014)
Subject Causation.
Skepticism.
Philosophy.
History of Western philosophy.
Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Causation
Skepticism
Form Electronic book
Author Klima, Gyula, editor
Hall, Alexander W., editor
Feser, Edward, contributor
ISBN 9781443865784
1443865788
144384330X
9781443843300