One True Cause

One True Cause
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 397
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780190941796
ISBN-13 : 0190941790
Rating : 4/5 (790 Downloads)

Book Synopsis One True Cause by : Andrew R. Platt

Download or read book One True Cause written by Andrew R. Platt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--


One True Cause Related Books

One True Cause
Language: en
Pages: 397
Authors: Andrew R. Platt
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche popularized the doctrine of occasionalism in the late seventeenth century. Occasionalism is the thesis that God alon
The Book of Why
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Judea Pearl
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Basic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intell
Real Cause, Real Cure
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Jacob Teitelbaum M.D.
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-07 - Publisher: Rodale Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An eye-opening guide that boils down common health problems to nine simple causes and offers the relief readers have been searching for. An expert in combining
The Principle of the Common Cause
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: Gábor Hofer-Szabó
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A conceptually and mathematically rigorous analysis of the common cause principle and its status in quantum theory.
Malebranche: The Search After Truth
Language: en
Pages: 828
Authors: Nicolas Malebranche
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Distinguished translation of the major work by a figure of crucial importance to the Enlightenment.