1st Edition
Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy
Introduction
Dominik Perler & Sebastian Bender
1. Suárez on Intellectual Cognition and Occasional Causation
Dominik Perler
2. Descartes on the Causal Structure of Cognition
Alison Simmons
3. Cartesian Causation and Cognition: Louis de la Forge and Géraud de Cordemoy
Tad Schmaltz
4. Causation and Cognition in Malebranche
Stephan Schmid
5. Ralph Cudworth: Plastic Nature, Cognition and the Cognizable World
Sarah Hutton
6. Nothing Is Simply One Thing: Conway on Multiplicity in Causation and Cognition
Julia Borcherding
7. Cavendish on Material Causation and Cognition
David Cunning
8. The Mechanical Mind: Hobbes on Sense Cognition and Imagination
Martine Pécharman
9. Knowing Mind through Knowing Body: Spinoza on Causal Knowledge of the Self and the External World
Daniel Garber
10. The Many Faces of Spinoza’s Causal Axiom
Martin Lin
11. Locke on Causation and Cognition
Jennifer Marušić
12. Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in Leibniz
Julia Jorati
13. John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand on the Occasional Cause of Cognition
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
14. Berkeley on Causation, Ideas and Necessary Connections
Sebastian Bender
15. Hume and "Reason as a Kind of Cause"
P. J. E. Kail
16. Reid on Intentionality and Causation
James Van Cleve
Biography
Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts and Science. His books include Partitioning the Soul: Debates from Plato Leibniz (ed., 2014), The Faculties: A History (ed., 2015), Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 (2018).
Sebastian Bender is Lecturer at the philosophy department at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. His research focuses primarily on early modern philosophy, in particular on the metaphysics and philosophy of mind of this era. In 2016, he published his first book, Leibniz’ Metaphysik der Modalität.
"This volume is a welcome addition to early modern scholarship, providing a source of reflection on the connection between cognition theory and causation theory. The collection's great merit is exploiting this cognition-causation connection to provide a new avenue for historical research that is at the same time philosophically significant."
Journal of the History of Philosophy
