Regular readers may be amused by this new (somewhat breezy and short) draft handbook chapter, “What to do when you encounter Funky Causes in the (historical) Wild.” Abstract: the chapter explains how the rise of the Mechanical philosophy during the seventeenth century contributed to the transformation of the traditional, Aristotelian schema of four causes into the dominance of efficient causation as the paradigmatic cause by the time of David Hume.
Have a great holiday!