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Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony

By Steven M. Nadler

Book information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
027102657X, 9780271026572
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
887 kB (908611 bytes)
Pages
232\103
Time added
2016-08-03 11:27:32
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Description

Three general accounts of causation stand out in early modern philosophy: Cartesian interactionism, occasionalism, and Leibniz's preestablished harmony. The contributors to this volume examine these theories in their philosophical and historical context. They address them both as a means for answering specific questions regarding causal relations and in their relation to one another, in particular, comparing occasionalism and the preestablished harmony as responses to Descartes's metaphysics and physics and the Cartesian account of causation. Philosophers discussed include Descartes, Gassendi, Malebranche, Arnauld, Leibniz, Bayle, La Forge, and other, less well-known figures.

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