Download or read book Efficient Causation written by Tad M. Schmaltz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery (or invention) in Ancient Greece, through its development in late antiquity, the medieval period, and modern philosophy, to its use in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.