A Universal and Absolute Spiritualism, Maine de Biran’s Leibniz

Dunham, Jeremy

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The Volitional Theory of Causation

Mander

2023

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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 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.

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This chapter introduces the basic idea of the volitional theory of causation, the proposal that volition, or will, of broadly the same kind as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all causality. The chapter proceeds by contextualizing the topic within current scholarly debate, outlining the methodology adopted, setting out the two basic elements of the causal theory of volition (specifically, the claim that, even if external reality seems to be wholly inert, within inner experience we find a sense of causal power, and the further highly expansive proposal that such intuitions give us the model for causation more generally), detailing the main issues which any adequate formulation needs to address, distinguishing the theory from superficially similar rivals and, finally, offering a preliminary taxonomy of different ways of thinking about the notion of will.

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A Universal and Absolute Spiritualism, Maine de Biran’s Leibniz

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