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9780192859235

The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature The Rules of the Game

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    9780192859235

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    0192859234

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-10-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Walter Ott, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia

Walter Ott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2000. He is the author of Locke's Philosophy of Language (Cambridge), Causation and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford), and Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception (Oxford).
He has published articles in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Ancient Philosophy, and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, among others.

Table of Contents


1. The Game
PART I - OPENINGS
2. The Early Days
3. Descartes's Legacy
PART II - CONTEMPORARY TOP-DOWN VIEWS
4. Primitivism
5. Universals (I)
6. Universals (II)
PART III - POWERS
7. Origins of the Powers View
8. The Powers Ontology
9. The Arguments for Powers
10. Facing Up to the Moderns
PART IV THE REGULARITY THEORY AND BEYOND
11. Origins: Hume and Mill
12. Contemporary Best System Analyses (I)
13. Contemporary Best System Analyses (II)
14. Alternatives
PART V - THE ENDGAME
15. Settling Up

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