One true cause : causal powers, divine concurrence, and the seventeenth-century revival of occasionalism /

Since the 1970s, there has been a growing body of literature on Malebranche and occasionalism. There has also been new work on the Cartesian occasionalists before Malebranche-including Arnold Geulincx, Gerauld de Cordemoy, and Louis de la Forge. But to date there has not been a systematic, book-leng...

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Causal powers, divine concurrence, and the seventeenth-century revival of occasionalism
Causal powers and divine concurrence in Descartes' philosophy.
doctrine of occasionalism.
Efficient causation.
Concurrentism.
Causal powers.
Occasional causes.
Cartesian physics.
God and motion.
Body-body occasionalism.
Laws of nature.
causal powers of Cartesian bodies.
Mind-body interactionism.
Sensation.
Occasions for sensation.
Causal principles.
argument from the containment principle.
Clauberg : efficient causation and the mind-body union.
Clauberg's account of the mind-body union.
Toward a consistent interactionism.
Is Clauberg an occasionalist?
Two conceptions of efficient causation.
rise of Cartesian occasionalism.
Geulincx : occasionalism and the ethics of humility.
Occasionalism and mind-body interaction in Geulincx.
quod nescis principle.
Volitional agency.
Christian ethics of humility.
motive for occasionalism.
La Forge : occasionalism and Cartesian epistemology.
La Forge's account of the mind-body union.
Sensation and remote efficient causation.
divine concursus argument.
La Forge's motives for occasionalism.
Cordemoy : occasionalism and the metaphysics of motion.
Cordemoy's arguments for body-body occasionalism.
Cordemoy on mind-body causation.
Body-mind interaction and the mind-body union.
Lennon's analysis.
Cordemoy's motivations.
Malebranche's case for occasionalism.
Rejecting concurrentism.
Arguments against subordinate powers.
Omnipotence and necessary connection.
Omnipotence and creation.
Malebranche's assumptions.
Malebranche's motives for occasionalism.
1. Verfasser:
Platt, Andrew R.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Zusammenfassung:
Since the 1970s, there has been a growing body of literature on Malebranche and occasionalism. There has also been new work on the Cartesian occasionalists before Malebranche-including Arnold Geulincx, Gerauld de Cordemoy, and Louis de la Forge. But to date there has not been a systematic, book-length study of the reasoning that led Cartesian thinkers to adopt occasionalism, and the relationship of their arguments to Descartes's own views. This book expands on recent scholarship, to provide the first comprehensive account of seventeenth-century occasionalism.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 384 pages)
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-094181-2
0-19-094182-0
0-19-094180-4
Schlagworte:
Occasionalism.
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