The volitional theory of causation: from Berkeley to the twentieth century
"This book presents a history of the volitional theory of causation—the philosophical proposal that volition, or will, of the same or broadly the same stamp as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all causality. Few today know muc...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book presents a history of the volitional theory of causation—the philosophical proposal that volition, or will, of the same or broadly the same stamp as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all causality. Few today know much about the volitional theory of causation, and even fewer have given it any serious attention. But if current opinion regards this suggestion as an unusual one, of minor importance, the historical record shows otherwise, revealing that it is a theory which has been proposed and developed again and again throughout the modern era. Its obscurity is only a recent phenomenon. Starting at the beginning of the Early Modern period and progressing right up the modern times, the historical discussion takes in both supporters and critics, as well as both famous and less well-known figures, to tell the story of a long-running debate which contemporary history of philosophy has forgotten. The principal figures discussed are Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Maine de Biran, Schopenhauer, Mansel, Mill, Martineau, Alexander Campbell Fraser, Borden Parker Bowne, and G.F.Stout, although many other philosophers are also considered. The book ends with a consider of the philosophical merits of the theory."-- |
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| adam_text | Contents 1. Introductory discussion 1.1 The volitional theory of causation 1.2 Methodology and approach 1.3 The feeling of causality 1.4 How to explain causality in the material world 1.5 Distinction from similar theories 1.6 What on earth is will? 2. Berkeley and Johnson 2.1 The passivity of ideas 2.2 The activity of spirit 2.3 The only form of agency 2.4 All causation involves agency 2.5 The scientific view 2.6 How the volitional theory supports the argument for idealism 2.7 The problem of bodily movement 2.8 Samuel Johnson 1 1 2 4 5 12 16 20 22 28 34 35 35 39 39 41 3. Hume and Hartley 3.1 Hume’s general position on causation 3.2 Hume’s criticisms of the volitional theory 3.3 Responses to Hume 3.4 Hume’s fatal admission 3.5 David Hartley 46 46 48 54 64 66 4. Reid and Kames 4.1 The principles of causality 4.2 The idea of causality—power, agency, and will 4.3 Causation in external reality 4.4 The scientific view 4.5 Free will 4.6 Lord Kames 71 71 73 82 87 89 92 5. Maine de Biran and Schopenhauer 5.1 De Biran and the sens intime 5.2 De Biran on the Humean theory of causation 5.3 De Biran on the ‘primitive fact’ of willed effort 5.4 De Biran’s rebuttal of Hume 5.5 De Biran’s general theory of causation 5.6 Schopenhauer as critic of volitional causation 5.7 Schopenhauer as supporter of volitional causation 5.8 Comparison of Schopenhauer with Maine de Biran 98 98 100 101 104 109 112 115 119
vi CONTENTS 6. Critics of the volitional theory 6.1 Thomas Brown 6.2 James Mill 6.3 William Hamilton 6.4 John Stuart Mill 125 125 134 138 143 7. Mansel, Martineau, and others 7.1 Taylor, Herschel, and Whewell 7.2 Francis Bowen 7.3 Henry Mansel 7.4 Martineau: Regularity vs. power 7.5 Martineau: The inner perspective of agency 7.6 Martineau: The nature of volition 7.7 Martineau: God and nature 7.8 Two followers of Martineau: Hutton and Upton 150 150 155 160 165 167 172 173 175 8. Turn of the century figures 8.1 Alexander Campbell Fraser and the return to Berkeley 8.2 Alfred Russel Wallace and evolution 8.3 Lotze 8.4 Borden Parker Bowne and personalism 8.5 James Ward and psychology 8.6 G. F. Stout and psychology 181 183 186 188 192 199 205 9. Recent critics 9.1 Late-nineteenth-century empiricists 9.2 Nietzsche’s challenge to volition 9.3 Turn of the century positivists, empiricists, and idealists 9.4 Mid-century language philosophy 209 209 219 223 227 10. Recent advocates 10.1 William James 10.2 F. C. S. Schiller and C. D. Broad 10.3 Hastings Rashdall 10.4 G. F. Stout’smetaphysics of causation 10.5 Jean Piaget 10.6 John Searle 234 234 237 243 247 252 254 11. Concluding discussion 11.1 The reality of genuinely efficient causality 11.2 The felt sense of agency 11.3 The sense of agency cannot be illusory 11.4 The natureof volitional causality 11.5 That volition is the whole of our understanding of causality 11.6 The extension from humantogeneral causation 260 260 263 269 270 274 276 Bibliography Index 281 293
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Contents 1. Introductory discussion 1.1 The volitional theory of causation 1.2 Methodology and approach 1.3 The feeling of causality 1.4 How to explain causality in the material world 1.5 Distinction from similar theories 1.6 What on earth is will? 2. Berkeley and Johnson 2.1 The passivity of ideas 2.2 The activity of spirit 2.3 The only form of agency 2.4 All causation involves agency 2.5 The scientific view 2.6 How the volitional theory supports the argument for idealism 2.7 The problem of bodily movement 2.8 Samuel Johnson 1 1 2 4 5 12 16 20 22 28 34 35 35 39 39 41 3. Hume and Hartley 3.1 Hume’s general position on causation 3.2 Hume’s criticisms of the volitional theory 3.3 Responses to Hume 3.4 Hume’s fatal admission 3.5 David Hartley 46 46 48 54 64 66 4. Reid and Kames 4.1 The principles of causality 4.2 The idea of causality—power, agency, and will 4.3 Causation in external reality 4.4 The scientific view 4.5 Free will 4.6 Lord Kames 71 71 73 82 87 89 92 5. Maine de Biran and Schopenhauer 5.1 De Biran and the sens intime 5.2 De Biran on the Humean theory of causation 5.3 De Biran on the ‘primitive fact’ of willed effort 5.4 De Biran’s rebuttal of Hume 5.5 De Biran’s general theory of causation 5.6 Schopenhauer as critic of volitional causation 5.7 Schopenhauer as supporter of volitional causation 5.8 Comparison of Schopenhauer with Maine de Biran 98 98 100 101 104 109 112 115 119
vi CONTENTS 6. Critics of the volitional theory 6.1 Thomas Brown 6.2 James Mill 6.3 William Hamilton 6.4 John Stuart Mill 125 125 134 138 143 7. Mansel, Martineau, and others 7.1 Taylor, Herschel, and Whewell 7.2 Francis Bowen 7.3 Henry Mansel 7.4 Martineau: Regularity vs. power 7.5 Martineau: The inner perspective of agency 7.6 Martineau: The nature of volition 7.7 Martineau: God and nature 7.8 Two followers of Martineau: Hutton and Upton 150 150 155 160 165 167 172 173 175 8. Turn of the century figures 8.1 Alexander Campbell Fraser and the return to Berkeley 8.2 Alfred Russel Wallace and evolution 8.3 Lotze 8.4 Borden Parker Bowne and personalism 8.5 James Ward and psychology 8.6 G. F. Stout and psychology 181 183 186 188 192 199 205 9. Recent critics 9.1 Late-nineteenth-century empiricists 9.2 Nietzsche’s challenge to volition 9.3 Turn of the century positivists, empiricists, and idealists 9.4 Mid-century language philosophy 209 209 219 223 227 10. Recent advocates 10.1 William James 10.2 F. C. S. Schiller and C. D. Broad 10.3 Hastings Rashdall 10.4 G. F. Stout’smetaphysics of causation 10.5 Jean Piaget 10.6 John Searle 234 234 237 243 247 252 254 11. Concluding discussion 11.1 The reality of genuinely efficient causality 11.2 The felt sense of agency 11.3 The sense of agency cannot be illusory 11.4 The natureof volitional causality 11.5 That volition is the whole of our understanding of causality 11.6 The extension from humantogeneral causation 260 260 263 269 270 274 276 Bibliography Index 281 293 |
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