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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: volitional theory of causation
    sub title: from Berkeley to the twentieth century
  name:
    name part: Mander, W. J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 294 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: W.J. Mander.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-291) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Causation
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Will
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers
    topic: History
  classification: BD541 .M36 2023
  classification: 122
  identifier: 0192867539
  identifier: 9780192867537
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220727
    record change date: 20230728154604.1
    record identifier: in00004730978