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Author:   Julia Jorati (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 14.30cm
Weight:   0.485kg
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9780190925512

ISBN 10:   0190925515
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   15 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction, Julia Jorati Chapter 1: Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors, Anna Marmodoro Chapter 2: Platonic and Stoic Powers, D.T.J. Bailey Reflection: Power, Nature, Body, Soul, Music, Andrew Hicks Chapter 3: Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology of Aristotle, and Ibn Gabirol, Sarah Pessin Chapter 4: The Power of Possibility: Power, Nature and Possibility in Avicenna, Jon McGinnis Reflection: Bâ on Power, Monika Brodnicka Chapter 5: Causal Powers in the Latin Christian West, Peter King Chapter 6: Causal Powers and Ontology in Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz, Jeffrey K. McDonough Reflection: Taming Material Powers: From Paracelsus to Frankenstein, Mi Gyung Kim Chapter 7: The Power of Self-Motion in Cavendish's Nature, Marcy P. Lascano Chapter 8: 'Plastick powers' and the Power of Sympathy in Cudworth and More: The Spirit of Nature and Plastic Nature (Hutton) Reflection: Locating Powers in Early-Modern Religious Imagery, Andrew Casper Chapter 9: Powers in Britain, 1689-1827, Antonia LoLordo Chapter 10: The Metaphysics of Powers in Kant and Hegel, Clinton Tolley Chapter 11: Powers in Contemporary Philosophy, Jennifer McKitrick

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Julia Jorati is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy. She is the author of Leibniz on Causation and Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and of numerous articles on early modern metaphysics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy.

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