Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy

This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities.

Sebastian Bender is Junior Professor of Philosophy at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He specializes in early modern philosophy, with a focus on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He is the author of Leibniz’ Metaphysik der Modalität (2016) and co-editor of Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy (2020).

Dominik Perler is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Co-Director of the Human Abilities Center. His research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy. His books include Feelings Transformed. Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 (author, 2018), The Faculties: A History (editor, 2015), and Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy (co-editor, 2020).