Occasionalism

Author : Christian Henkel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781040012420

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Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany by Christian Henkel Pdf

This is the first book to focus on occasionalism in early modern German philosophy. It demonstrates that occasionalism provided a strong foundation for the thought of four important yet underexamined German philosophers: Erhard Weigel, Johann Christoph Sturm, Christian Wolff, and Gottfried Ploucquet. Occasionalism is most often associated with Cartesian early modern Christian philosophers, the most famous of whom is perhaps Nicolas Malebranche. Early modern German occasionalism has received very little scholarly attention, leaving us with an incomplete picture of the German causation debate from Leibniz to Kant. This book combines a chronological investigation of four influential and historically connected cases of occasionalism in early modern Germany with a reconstruction of arguments to address specific problems in metaphysics, natural philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of psychology. Providing a sufficient ground for nature and human beings’ mental and physical existence is a pressing issue for Weigel, Sturm, Wolff, and Ploucquet. In examining the thought of these four understudied German philosophers, this book helps us rethink the relation between metaphysics of nature and science of nature and better understand the development of early modern debates about causation. Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany is an important resource for scholars and advanced students working on the history of early modern philosophy and the history of metaphysics and causation.

Author : Majid Fakhry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134541478

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Islamic Occasionalism by Majid Fakhry Pdf

Originally published in 1958. Occasionalism is generally associated in the history of philosophy with the name of Malébranche . But long before this time, the Muslim Theologians of the ninth and tenth centuries had developed an occasionalist metaphysics of atoms and accidents. Arguing that a number of distinctively Islamic concepts such as fatalism and the surrender of personal endeavour cannot be fully understood except in the perspective of the occasionalist world view of Islam, the volume also discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Author : Andrew R. Platt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190941796

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One True Cause by Andrew R. Platt Pdf

"The French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche popularized the doctrine of occasionalism in the late seventeenth century. Occasionalism is the thesis that God alone is the true cause of everything that happens in the world, and created substances are merely "occasional causes." This doctrine was originally developed in medieval Islamic theology, and was widely rejected in the works of Christian authors in medieval Europe. Yet despite its heterodoxy, occasionalism was revived starting in the 1660s by French and Dutch followers of the philosophy of René Descartes. 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, Geraud 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' own views. This book expands on recent scholarship, to provide the first comprehensive account of seventeenth century occasionalism. Part I contrasts occasionalism with a theory of divine providence developed by Thomas Aquinas, in response to medieval occasionalists; it shows that Descartes' philosophy is compatible with Aquinas' theory, on which God "concurs" in all the actions of created beings. Part 2 reconstructs the arguments of Cartesians - such as Cordemoy and a Forge - who used Cartesian physics to argue for occasionalism. Finally, it shows how Malebranche's case for occasionalism combines philosophical theology with Cartesian metaphysics and mechanistic science"--

Author : Majid Fakhry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134541546

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Islamic Occasionalism by Majid Fakhry Pdf

Originally published in 1958. Occasionalism is generally associated in the history of philosophy with the name of Malébranche . But long before this time, the Muslim Theologians of the ninth and tenth centuries had developed an occasionalist metaphysics of atoms and accidents. Arguing that a number of distinctively Islamic concepts such as fatalism and the surrender of personal endeavour cannot be fully understood except in the perspective of the occasionalist world view of Islam, the volume also discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Author : James Fredrick Naify
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Occasionalism
ISBN : UCSD:31822006915797

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Arabic and European Occasionalism by James Fredrick Naify Pdf

Author : Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero,Mariangela Priarolo,Maria Emanuela Scribano
Publisher : Brepols
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Dualism
ISBN : 2503578179

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Occasionalism by Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero,Mariangela Priarolo,Maria Emanuela Scribano Pdf

Traditionally interpreted as an outcome of Cartesian dualism, in recent years occasionalism has undergone serious reassessment. Scholars have shifted their focus from the post-Cartesian debates on the mind-body problem to earlier discussions of body-body issues or even to the problem of causation as such. Occasionalism appears less and less a cheap solution to the mind-problem and more and more a family of theories on causation, which share the fundamental claim that all genuine causal powers belong to God. So why did the most spectacular emergence of occasionalism take place precisely in the post-Cartesian era? How did the scientific revolution and the need to fight back against the early modern resurgence of naturalism contribute to the success of occasionalist doctrines? This book provides a historical and theoretical map of occasionalism in all its various forms, with a special focus on its seventeenth-century supporters, adversaries, and polemical targets. These include not only canonical authors such as Cordemoy, La Forge, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz, but also less explored figures such as Clauberg, Clerselier, Fenelon, Fernel, Regis, and Regius. Furthermore, the book covers the earlier Arabic and Scholastic sources of occasionalism and its later developments in Berkeley, Wolff, and Hume.

Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780192893833

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History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 by Andrea Sangiacomo Pdf

This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521789737

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Descartes Embodied by Daniel Garber Pdf

A central theme unifying the essays in this volume on the work of Descartes is the interconnection between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian programme illuminate each other.

Author : Michael Bergmann,Jeffrey E. Brower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191047022

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Reason and Faith by Michael Bergmann,Jeffrey E. Brower Pdf

The past fifty years have been an enormously fruitful period in the field of philosophy of religion, and few have done more to advance its development during this time than Richard Swinburne. His pioneering work in philosophy of religion is distinguished, not only for the way in which it systematically develops a comprehensive set of positions within this field, but also for the way in which it builds on and contributes to contemporary work in other fields, such as metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. This volume presents a collection of ten new essays in philosophy of religion that develop and critically engage themes from Swinburne's work. Written by some of the leading figures in the field, these essays focus on issues in both natural theology (dealing with what can be known about God and his relation to the world independently of any particular religious tradition or revelation) and philosophical theology (reflecting critically on the doctrines associated with particular religious traditions). The first six essays address topics familiar from natural theology (faith, theistic arguments, and divine power). The last four essays address topics bearing on philosophical theology (atonement, liturgy, immortality, and the nature of body and soul).

Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198911876

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Oxford Studies of Metaethics 19 by Russ Shafer-Landau Pdf

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here.

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198250081

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Occasionalism by Steven Nadler Pdf

Steven Nadler presents a collection of essays on philosophical problems about causation in the seventeenth century. His focus is on a particular doctrine, "occasionalism", found among a number of early modern followers of Descartes. The essays consider the philosophical, scientific, theological, and historical context for the doctrine.

Author : Andrew R. Platt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190941802

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One True Cause by Andrew R. Platt Pdf

Occasionalism is the thesis that God alone is the true cause of everything that happens in the world, and created substances are merely "occasional causes." This doctrine was originally developed in medieval Islamic theology, and was widely rejected in the works of Christian authors in medieval Europe. Yet despite its heterodoxy, occasionalism was revived in the 1660s by followers of the philosophy of René Descartes, perhaps the most famous among them the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche, who popularized this doctrine. What led Cartesian thinkers to adopt occasionalism? Since the 1970s has there been a growing body of literature on Malebranche and the movement he engendered. There is also a new and growing body of work on the Cartesian occasionalists before Malebranche--including Arnold Geulincx, Geraud 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' own views. This book expands on recent scholarship to provide the first comprehensive account of seventeenth century occasionalism. Part I contrasts occasionalism with a theory of divine providence developed by Thomas Aquinas, in response to medieval occasionalists; it shows that Descartes' philosophy is compatible with Aquinas' theory, on which God "concurs" in all the actions of created beings. Part II reconstructs the arguments of Cartesians--such as Cordemoy and La Forge--who used Cartesian physics to argue for occasionalism. Finally, the book shows how Malebranche's case for occasionalism combines philosophical theology with Cartesian metaphysics and mechanistic science.

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470998830

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A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler Pdf

This is a reference for early modern philosophy. Representing the most contemporary research in the history of early modern philosophy, it is organized by thinker rather than theme, and covers every important philosopher and philosophical movement of 16th- and 18th-century Europe.

Author : Daniel Garber,Steven Nadler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191564031

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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume IV by Daniel Garber,Steven Nadler Pdf

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192647221

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History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 by Mordechai Feingold Pdf

This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.