The rise of Cartesian occasionalism
This study offers a new account of the development of Cartesian Occasionalism. The doctrine of Occasionalism – most famously advocated by Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) – states that God alone is the cause of every event, and created substances are merely “occasional causes.” In the years following...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3427565 |