OCCASIONALISM

metaphysical doctrine that denies that finite things have any active power and asserts that God is the only cause, whereas physical events and mental states are only occasions for God's action. Muslim theologians in the 8th cent. developed a version of occasionalism as an alternative to Aristotelian theories of causality. Occasionalism gained currency in the West in the 17th cent., when Arnold Geulincx and Nicolas Malebranche developed theories to resolve the problem of interaction in general, and of that between mind (immaterial) and body (material) in particular, which was posed by the dualism of René Descartes.

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books on: Occasionalism  - 374 results

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Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony
Book by Steven Nadler; Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993
Subjects: Causation--History, Philosophy, Modern--17th Century
...Modern Philosophy Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony Edited...modern philosophy : Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and pre-established harmony / edited...Descartes and Occasionalism 9 Daniel Garber...
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Malebranche
Book by Andrew Pyle; Routledge, 2002
...Deeper reasons 89 5 Occasionalism and continuous creation 96...How not to think of occasionalism 96...our own souls. These twin theses of occasionalism and the Vision in God constitute the...
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The Philosophy of Malebranche: A Study of His Integration of Faith, Reason, and Experimental Observation
Book by Beatrice K. Rome; H. Regnery Co., 1963
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of, Malebranche, Nicolas--1638-1715
...Chapter IV. OCCASIONALISM I. BEING, CREATIVITY...201 IV. OCCASIONALISM 209...I argue for a reinterpretation of Occasionalism as a metaphysical account of the origin...
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The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism
Book by G. H.R. Parkinson; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern--17th Century, Philosophy, Renaissance
...moral and political philosophy of Spinoza/Hans W. Blom Occasionalism/Daisie Radner Leibniz/Nicholas Jolley. 1. Philosophy...Hans W. Blom 10 Occasionalism 349 Daisie Radner...
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The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes
Book by Nicholas Jolley; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Descartes, Rene--1596-1650--Contributions in theory of ideas, Idea (Philosophy)--History--17th century, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm--Freiherr von--1646-1716--Contributions in theory of ideas, Malebranche, Nicolas--1638-1715--Contributions in theory of ideas
...Malebranche: Vision in God and Occasionalism 99...garbled version of the doctrine of occasionalism. Yet in his own day Malebranche was...Descartes gestures in the direction of occasionalism; our mind is said to be capable of...
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journal articles on: Occasionalism  - 29 results

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Leibniz on Concurrence and Efficient Causation
Journal article by Marc E. Bobro; The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 46, 2008
Subjects: Changes, Miracles
...different answers to this question: occasionalism, mere conservationism, and concurrentism...Malebranche, among others, defended occasionalism, the view that God is the only causal...words, he is not an occasionalist. Occasionalism maintains that God must act for any...
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The Development of Physical Influx in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany: Gottsched, Knutzen, and Crusius
Journal article by Eric Watkins; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 49, 1995
Subjects: Causation--18th century, Philosophy, German--18th century
...each other. Thus, Malebranche develops Occasionalism, which solves the problem by denying...opposes to Pre-established Harmony and occasionalism and dubs "influxus physicus" or "Physical...doctrines of Pre-established Harmony, Occasionalism, and Physical Influx.(4) Physical Influx...
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Atomism versus Hylomorphism in the Kalam of Al-Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi: A Preliminary Survey of the Matalib Al-'Aliyyah
Journal article by 'Adi Setia; Islam & Science, Vol. 4, 2006
Subjects: Atomism--Religious aspects, Metaphysics--Religious aspects
...today, are so committed to atomism and occasionalism. Keywords: Atomism; hylomorphism...obviously anathema to the kalam atomism and occasionalism (29) adopted by F. al-Razi in his later...and significance of kalam atomism or occasionalism has to be appreciated: namely as essentially...
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Journal of the History of Philosophy: Vol. 46, No. 4, October 2008
Journal article; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 62, 2008
Subjects: Arnauld, Antoine--Criticism and interpretation, Cartesianism--Analysis, Desgabets, Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Journal of the History of Philosophy (Periodical), Malebranche, Nicolas--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Theologians--Criticism and interpretation
...Malebranches Two Arguments for Occasionalism, SUKJAE LEE Malebranche presents two major arguments for occasionalism: the "no necessary connection...skeptical naturalism. Francois Lamy, Occasionalism, and the Mind-Body Problem, FRED...
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Descartes on Causation
Journal article by Daniel E. Flage, Clarence A. Bonnen; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 50, 1997
Subjects: Causation--Philosophy, Descartes, Rene--Philosophy, Mind and body--Philosophy
...also Daniel Garber, "Descartes and Occasionalism," in Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony, ed...Physics, 299-305, "Descartes and Occasionalism") and turn Descartes into at least...
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magazine articles on: Occasionalism  - 3 results

 
 
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Political Theologies
Magazine article by Richard Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2004
Subjects: Authors--Works, Bell, Daniel M., Jr.--Works, Writers--Works
...Cudworth. Of course. It is, I suppose, a kind of United Nations redesigned by philosophers attuned to the seventeenth-century "occasionalism" of Nicolas Malebranche and the insights of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, to whom Ralph Waldo Emerson was indebted...
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A Note on Arthur Peacocke
Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2003
...exploratory curiosity, by claiming that a sparrow falls because God makes it to fall is the philosophical error called "occasionalism," an error that in my opinion lurks behind the airy lucubrations of Teilhard de Chardin and Arthur Peacocke.
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A Place in the Cosmos
Magazine article by Thomas S. Hibbs; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Writings of Charles De Koninck, vol. 1 (Collection)--Book reviews
...a universal cause, which acts not so much externally on things as internally. De Koninck has no patience for the sort of occasionalism that passes for creationism. By contrast, the Thomistic tendency, inspired by St. Augustine, "enriches as much as possible...


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encyclopedia articles on: Occasionalism  - 6 results

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Occasionalism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OCCASIONALISM metaphysical doctrine that denies that finite things have any active power...occasions for Gods action. Muslim theologians in the 8th cent. developed a version of occasionalism as an alternative to Aristotelian theories of causality. Occasionalism gained currency in the West in the 17th cent., when Arnold Geulincx and Nicolas...
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Geulincx, Arnold
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GEULINCX, ARNOLD go lingks, 1624 69, Flemish Cartesian philosopher, b. Antwerp. One of the founders of occasionalism , his philosophy is characterized by a curious blending of rationalism and mysticism. Arguing that God is the sole active...
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Glanvill, Joseph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...clergyman and philosopher. He was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II and prebendary of Worcester Cathedral. An exponent of occasionalism and precursor to Hume, Glanvill sought to prove the inefficacy of all secondary causes, which he regarded as merely the...
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Malebranche, Nicolas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with Christian theology. Beginning with Descartess dualism between mind and body, Malebranche developed a theory called occasionalism , which denied any interaction of the two realms. To Malebranche, the eternal truths are contained in the divine intellect...
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Dualism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and an epistemological dualism between the passivity of sensation and the spontaneity of the understanding. In psychology occasionalism and interactionism both assumed a dualism of mind and matter. The term also has a theological application, e.g., Manichaeism...
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