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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; 1 Introduction; References; The Concept of Potentiality in the History of Philosophy-Aristotle; 2 Potentiality in Aristotle's Metaphysics; 1 Potentiality for Change; 2 Causal Agency; 3 Stimulus and Appropriate Conditions; 4 Non-relational Powers; 5 The Dependence of the Mover on the Movable; 6 The Effect of the Mover on the Movable; 7 The Primary Powers; 8 Actualised Powers; 9 The Potentiality of the Four Causes; Bibliography; Aristotle's texts are all quoted from; Other works cited; 3 Potentiality in Aristotle's Physics and Biology
1 Physics, Biology and Psychology2 Potentiality: Three Types of Appeal; 3 Potentiality: The Terminology and the Canonical Account; 4 Two Ways of Thinking About Potentialities and Their Exercise; 5 A Familiar Objection and a Response; 6 Heating and Cooling; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Potentiality in Aristotle's Psychology and Ethics; 1 Plato and Early Aristotle; 2 Potentiality in De anima; 3 Definitions of Soul and Body; 4 Potentiality and Actuality in Perception; 5 Potentiality in Ethics; References; The Concept of Potentiality in the History of Philosophy-Medieval Philosophy
5 Potentiality in Classical Arabic Thought1 Early Developments; 2 Avicenna: Potentiality as Fitness; 3 Averroes: Potentiality, Nature, and Essence; Bibliography; 6 Potentialities in the Late Middle Ages-The Latin Tradition; 1 Potentialities in Metaphysics: The Problem of Contingency; 2 Potentialities in Physics: The Problem of Natural Teleology; 3 Potentialities in the Late Middle Ages: Increasing Loss of Relevance?; References; The Concept of Potentiality in the History of Philosophy-Early Modern Philosophy; 7 Potentiality in Rationalism; 1 Introduction; 2 Descartes
2.1 Is an Atomistic Conception of Time Compatible with Genuine Powers of Bodies?2.2 Descartes' Talk of Tendencies as a Useful Description of Phenomena; 2.3 Descartes' Powers as Instantly Realisable Dispositions; 2.4 Descartes' Turn Away from the Scholastic Potency-Act Doctrine; 3 Spinoza; 3.1 Does the Theory of Modality Allow for True Potentials?; 3.2 Does the Causal Necessity of Individual Beings Allow for Potentials?; 3.3 Potentia: Present Control or Potential for Future Development?; 3.4 Potentials and Teleology
3.4.1 Are There Potentials for a Goal-Directed Development into Real Perfections?3.4.2 Can the Goal-Directedness of Human Action Be Transferred to All Individual Beings?; 4 Leibniz; 4.1 Leibniz's Notion of Force and the Three Stages of Capacity; 4.2 Force as Mediation Between a Capacity and Activity; 4.3 The Reconciliation of the Physical and the Metaphysical Perspective; 4.4 Passive Capacities as Gradually Inferior Active Capacities; 4.5 The Reconciliation of the Perspectives of Final and Efficient Cause Through the Notion of Force
1 Physics, Biology and Psychology2 Potentiality: Three Types of Appeal; 3 Potentiality: The Terminology and the Canonical Account; 4 Two Ways of Thinking About Potentialities and Their Exercise; 5 A Familiar Objection and a Response; 6 Heating and Cooling; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Potentiality in Aristotle's Psychology and Ethics; 1 Plato and Early Aristotle; 2 Potentiality in De anima; 3 Definitions of Soul and Body; 4 Potentiality and Actuality in Perception; 5 Potentiality in Ethics; References; The Concept of Potentiality in the History of Philosophy-Medieval Philosophy
5 Potentiality in Classical Arabic Thought1 Early Developments; 2 Avicenna: Potentiality as Fitness; 3 Averroes: Potentiality, Nature, and Essence; Bibliography; 6 Potentialities in the Late Middle Ages-The Latin Tradition; 1 Potentialities in Metaphysics: The Problem of Contingency; 2 Potentialities in Physics: The Problem of Natural Teleology; 3 Potentialities in the Late Middle Ages: Increasing Loss of Relevance?; References; The Concept of Potentiality in the History of Philosophy-Early Modern Philosophy; 7 Potentiality in Rationalism; 1 Introduction; 2 Descartes
2.1 Is an Atomistic Conception of Time Compatible with Genuine Powers of Bodies?2.2 Descartes' Talk of Tendencies as a Useful Description of Phenomena; 2.3 Descartes' Powers as Instantly Realisable Dispositions; 2.4 Descartes' Turn Away from the Scholastic Potency-Act Doctrine; 3 Spinoza; 3.1 Does the Theory of Modality Allow for True Potentials?; 3.2 Does the Causal Necessity of Individual Beings Allow for Potentials?; 3.3 Potentia: Present Control or Potential for Future Development?; 3.4 Potentials and Teleology
3.4.1 Are There Potentials for a Goal-Directed Development into Real Perfections?3.4.2 Can the Goal-Directedness of Human Action Be Transferred to All Individual Beings?; 4 Leibniz; 4.1 Leibniz's Notion of Force and the Three Stages of Capacity; 4.2 Force as Mediation Between a Capacity and Activity; 4.3 The Reconciliation of the Physical and the Metaphysical Perspective; 4.4 Passive Capacities as Gradually Inferior Active Capacities; 4.5 The Reconciliation of the Perspectives of Final and Efficient Cause Through the Notion of Force