Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy

Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts and Science. His books include Partitioning the Soul: Debates from Plato Leibniz (ed., 2014), The Faculties: A History (ed., 2015), Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 (2018).Sebastian Bender is Lecturer at the philosophy department at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. His research focuses primarily on early modern philosophy, in particular on the metaphysics and philosophy of mind of this era. In 2016, he published his first book, Leibniz’ Metaphysik der Modalität.

• IntroductionDominik Perler & Sebastian Bender1. Suárez on Intellectual Cognition and Occasional CausationDominik Perler2. Descartes on the Causal Structure of CognitionAlison Simmons3. Cartesian Causation and Cognition: Louis de la Forge and Géraud de CordemoyTad Schmaltz4. Causation and Cognition in MalebrancheStephan Schmid5. Ralph Cudworth: Plastic Nature, Cognition and the Cognizable WorldSarah Hutton6. Nothing Is Simply One Thing: Conway on Multiplicity in Causation and CognitionJulia Borcherding7. Cavendish on Material Causation and CognitionDavid Cunning8. The Mechanical Mind: Hobbes on Sense Cognition and ImaginationMartine Pécharman9. Knowing Mind through Knowing Body: Spinoza on Causal Knowledge of the Self and the External WorldDaniel Garber10. The Many Faces of Spinoza’s Causal AxiomMartin Lin11. Locke on Causation and CognitionJennifer Marušić12. Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in LeibnizJulia Jorati13. John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand on the Occasional Cause of CognitionHan Thomas Adriaenssen14. Berkeley on Causation, Ideas and Necessary ConnectionsSebastian Bender15. Hume and "Reason as a Kind of Cause"P. J. E. Kail16. Reid on Intentionality and CausationJames Van Cleve

"This volume is a welcome addition to early modern scholarship, providing a source of reflection on the connection between cognition theory and causation theory. The collection's great merit is exploiting this cognition-causation connection to provide a new avenue for historical research that is at the same time philosophically significant."Journal of the History of Philosophy