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

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

9780190941826 (electronic book)

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (408 pages).

B105.O67 P53 2020

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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.

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.

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