Hypothesis and Moral Certainty: Descartes’ Criticism of the Efficient Causes [Spanish]

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  • Sergio García Rodríguez Universitat de les Illes Balears

Abstract

The common interpretation of Descartes argues that the new science is a result of Cartesian replacement, in scientific explanations, of the final and formal causes by the efficient causes. While this statement is broadly correct, it has tended to assume that efficient causes do not imply any problem. This paper wishes to question this assump­tion, showing a number of problems concerning the knowability of efficient causes.

Author Biography

Sergio García Rodríguez, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). Actualmente se desempeña como docente en la misma institución y como becario posdoctoral en el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICET). Sus actuales líneas de investigación son: filosofía de la Baja Edad Media, escolástica y Tomás de Aquino.

 

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2017-06-13

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No. 27 (2017): No. 27 July-december 2017

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