Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10 : Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics).

Intro -- 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 -- AQUINAS, THE KALƖM, AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT SENSE PERCEPTION -- THE TURN TO EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY -- APPENDIX -- CONTRIBUTORS.

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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