79:3 July 1996
Causality Before Hume

Advisory Editor: Graham White

Table of Contents:

Stephen Riker
Al-Ghazali on Necessary Causality in the Incoherence of the Philosophers

Rega Wood
Causality and Demonstration: An Early Scholastic Posterior Analytics Commmentary

André Goddu
William of Ockham’s Distinction between ?Real” Efficient Causes and Strictly Sine Qua Non Causes

Amy M. Schmitter
Formal Causation and the Explanation of Intentionality in Descartes

Margaret J. Osler
From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy

Marc Borro and Kenneth Clatterbaugh
Unpacking the Monad: Leibniz’s Theory of Causality

Cees Van Leuenhorst
Hobbes’ Theory of Causality and Its Aristotelian Background

Steven Nadler
"No Necessary Connection": The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of Hume