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 Causality and Causal Explanation in Aristotle
Aristotle’s writings about causality and its relation to natural science are at the heart of his philosophical project, and at the origin of a 2,000-year history of inquiry into these topics. Yet for all the work done on various aspects of his thought, there has been no full-length philosophical study of his theory of causality, and some basic questions about it remain under-examined. For example, it is unclear, from what he and his commentators have said, (a) how Aristotle answers the main philosophical questions about causality to which he thinks his predecessors’ answers are flawed, and (b) how his answers bear on the main questions we confront in thinking about causality in general, such that those answers could be usefully critiqued, developed, and compared with others. Nathanael Stein’s book addresses these two questions. It is not a survey of Aristotle’s claims, but rather focuses on a set of key conceptual, metaphysical, and epistemological questions that are important both for understanding Aristotle’s responses to his predecessors and for understanding causality in general. The book thus provides the kind of philosophical engagement with Aristotle that has proven so fruitful in other domains, such as ethics and metaphysics. It also aims to contribute to a more accurate understanding of the differences between ancient and modern approaches to the natural world. This book is meant for anyone interested in philosophical theories of causation and explanation and their history, as well as those who have read Aristotle’s thoughts on the topic of causality and come away wondering what it all really adds up to, and how we might engage with it.

Causality and Causal Explanation in Aristotle 1st Table of contents:

 I.1. The Basic Problem
I.2. Outline
I.3. Themes, Consequences, Comparisons, and Absences
Part I: Conceptual Structure
1. Reading (and Animating) Physics II 3
1.1. The Problem of Physics II 3
1.2. Physics II 3 in the Context of Book II
2. Background 1: Critiques of the Predecessors
2.1. Epistemological and Scientific Critiques
2.2. Metaphysical Critiques
2.3. Summary
3. Background 2: Science and Dialectic
3.1. Being “in Virtue of Oneself” and in Other Ways
3.2. Physics II 2 and the Autonomy of Natural Science
3.3. Posterior Analytics II 11 and the Simple Schema of Causes
3.4. Summary
4. Physics II 3 in Argumentative Context
4.1. Highlights
4.2. Implications for Theory and Method
4.3. Causal Pluralism
4.4. Strengths, Weaknesses, and Open Questions
Part II: Metaphysics
5. The Realist Challenge
5.1. Metaphysical Pluralism
5.2. Clarifying the Question
6. Causes, Kinds, and Transformations
6.1. From Privileged Entities to Intrinsic Causes
6.2. Essentialism and Kinds of Natural Change
6.3. Pre-theoretical and Theoretical Accounts of Change
6.4. Real Definitions of Transeunt Interactions
6.5. Summary
7. Causal Kinds and Causal Profiles
7.1. Real Definitions and Causal Profiles
7.2. The Varieties of Causal Profile
7.3. Connections and Correspondences to Other Distinctions
7.4. Causal Profiles at Work: Gluttonous Birds
7.5. Implications for Puzzles about Aristotelian Causality
7.6. Summary
8. Discreteness in Agent–Patient Relations
8.1. The Realist Question
8.2. “Ways of Being Causes” in Physics II 3
8.3. Transeunt-Causal Change in Physics III 3
8.4. Varieties of Discreteness
8.5. Discreteness Applied
8.6. Aristotle and Modern “Neo-mechanism”
8.7. Summary, Comparisons, and Open Questions
Part III: Epistemology
9. Coming to Know Causes
9.1. Basic Questions about Grasping Causes
9.2. Causes and the Two Images
9.3. A Problem of Induction
9.4. Stages of Inquiry and Their Associated States or Capacities
10. Causality and Epistemic Asymmetries
10.1. Manifest Causes and Basic Asymmetries
10.2. The Priority of Transeunt-Causal Efficient Causality
10.3. Grasping Transeunt-Causal Interactions
10.4. Understanding Origin-Dominant Causal Profiles
10.5. Summary
11. The Non-Secret Connexion
11.1. Is Some Causality Just as It Appears?
11.2. The Special Importance and Epistemic Status of Crafts
11.3. The Nature of Blood
11.4. Summary: Causal Explanation and Aristotle’s Empiricism
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Subject Index

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