Oxford Philosophical Concepts / Powers

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: Ba 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

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.