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.

This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern thought. It is unique in that it explores both well-known and understudied historical figures, and in that it emphasizes the intimate relationship between causation and cognition to open up new perspectives on early modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Introduction

Dominik Perler & Sebastian Bender

1. Suárez on Intellectual Cognition and Occasional Causation

Dominik Perler

2. Descartes on the Causal Structure of Cognition

Alison Simmons

3. Cartesian Causation and Cognition: Louis de la Forge and Géraud de Cordemoy

Tad Schmaltz

4. Causation and Cognition in Malebranche

Stephan Schmid

5. Ralph Cudworth: Plastic Nature, Cognition and the Cognizable World

Sarah Hutton

6. Nothing Is Simply One Thing: Conway on Multiplicity in Causation and Cognition

Julia Borcherding

7. Cavendish on Material Causation and Cognition

David Cunning

8. The Mechanical Mind: Hobbes on Sense Cognition and Imagination

Martine Pécharman

9. Knowing Mind through Knowing Body: Spinoza on Causal Knowledge of the Self and the External World

Daniel Garber

10. The Many Faces of Spinoza's Causal Axiom

Martin Lin

11. Locke on Causation and Cognition

Jennifer MaruSic

12. Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in Leibniz

Julia Jorati

13. John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand on the Occasional Cause of Cognition

Han Thomas Adriaenssen

14. Berkeley on Causation, Ideas and Necessary Connections

Sebastian Bender

15. Hume and "Reason as a Kind of Cause"

P. J. E. Kail

16. Reid on Intentionality and Causation

James Van Cleve