{"product_id":"occasionalism-causation-among-the-cartesians-9780198250081","title":"Occasionalism Causation Among the Cartesians","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven Nadler presents a collection of essays on the problem of causation in seventeenth-century philosophy. Occasionalism is the doctrine, held by a number of early modern Cartesian thinkers, that created substances are devoid of any true causal powers, and that God is the only real causal agent in the universe. All natural phenomena have God as their direct and immediate cause, with natural things and their states serving only as occasions for God to act. Rather than being merely an ad hoc, deus ex machina response to the mind-body problem bequeathed by Descartes to his followers, as it has often been portrayed in the past, occasionalism is in fact a full-blooded, complex and philosophically interesting account of causal relations. These essays examine the philosophical, scientific, theological and religious themes and arguments of occasionalism, as well as its roots in medieval views on God and causality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea fine work of scholarship. * Susan Peppers Bates, Philosophy in Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction ; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; 1. Occasionalism and the Mind-Body Problem ; 2. Descartes and Occasional Causation ; 3. Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche ; 4. Postscript to \"Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche\" ; 5. Knowledge, Volitional Agency and Causation in Malebranche and Geulincx ; 6. Dualism and Occasionalism:  Arnauld and the Development of Cartesian Metaphysics ; 7. The Occasionalism of Louis de la Forge ; 8. Louis de la Forge and the Development of Occasionalism:  Continuous Creation and the Activity of the Soul ; 9. Cordemoy and Occasionalism ; 10. 'No Necessary Connection':  The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of Hume ; 11. Choosing a Theodicy:  The Leibniz-Malebranche-Arnauld Connection","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766939222359,"sku":"9780198250081","price":87.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198250081.jpg?v=1758711773","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/occasionalism-causation-among-the-cartesians-9780198250081","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}