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Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany

Author : Christian Henkel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040012426
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany written by Christian Henkel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Occasionalism

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198250088
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Occasionalism written by Steven Nadler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Islamic Occasionalism

Author : Majid Fakhry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134541546
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Occasionalism written by Majid Fakhry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Occasionalism Revisited

Author : Nazif Muhtaroglu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789948236627
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Occasionalism Revisited written by Nazif Muhtaroglu and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seminal essays revisiting the concept of occasionalism as to determine its historical roots and intellectual developments in Islamic and Western philosophies.

Occasionalism

Author : Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero
Publisher : Brepols
ISBN 13 : 9782503578170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Occasionalism written by Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero and published by Brepols. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

One True Cause

Author : Andrew R. Platt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190941790
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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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"--

Causation in Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039663
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Causation in Early Modern Philosophy written by Steven Nadler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume IV

Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191564036
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume IV written by Daniel Garber and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology

Author : Frank Griffel
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195331621
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology written by Frank Griffel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of Muslim thinker al-Ghazali's life and his understanding of cosmology-how God creates things and events in the world, how human acts relate to God's power, and how the universe is structured.

History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192647229
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2

Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192893831
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book History of Universities Volume XXXIII/2 written by Andrea Sangiacomo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Jonathan Edwards and the Immediacy of God

Author : John Carrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725252910
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Edwards and the Immediacy of God written by John Carrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards is one of the outstanding figures in the history of the Christian church—he was, quite simply, a man of towering intellect and towering spirituality. But it has been noted, even by his friends and admirers, that his thought is also marked at times by certain idiosyncrasies which inevitably introduce certain complexities into his philosophical-theological system. This study contends that the theme of divine immediacy is the controlling theme and the correlating principle within Edwards’s thought. It analyzes the theme of divine immediacy in the thought of Jonathan Edwards under four major heads: creation, the will, ecclesiology, and spiritual experience. Indeed, Dr. Carrick claims that the theme of the immediacy of God is the Ariadne’s thread, which runs with consistency through the multiple aspects of Edwards’s philosophical, theological, ecclesiological, experiential, and homiletical interests. But sometimes a man’s strength is also his weakness, and it would appear that Edwards’s profound commitment to the concept and the reality of the immediacy of God entails significant problems for his entire philosophical-theological system. Edwards’s concept of divine immediacy finds its supreme expression, surely, in his doctrine of continuous creation; but is it not the case that this doctrine of continuous creation is in conflict with his determinism, that its tendency is to destroy the moral responsibility of man, and that it makes God both the author and the actor of sin? In short, is it not the case that Edwards’s Ariadne’s thread is, in fact, also his Achilles’ heel?

Reconsidering Causal Powers

Author : Benjamin Hill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192642766
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering Causal Powers written by Benjamin Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science. Once central features of philosophical thinking about the natures of substances and causes, they were banished during the early modern era and the Scientific Revolution. In this volume, distinguished scholars revisit the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles within the theories of substance and cause across history. Each chapter focuses on the philosophical roles causal powers were thought to play at the time, and the reasons offered in support, or against, their coherence and ability to perform these roles. By placing rigorous philosophical analyses of thinking about causal powers within their historical contexts, features of their natures which might remain hidden to contemporary practitioners can be more readily identified and more carefully analyzed. The thoughts of such prominent philosophers as Aristotle, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan are explored, then on through Suarez, Descartes, and Malebranche, to Locke and Hume, and ultimately to contemporary figures like the logical positivists Goodman and Lewis.

Berkeley's Three Dialogues

Author : Stefan Storrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192538071
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Three Dialogues written by Stefan Storrie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of essays devoted to Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts examine all the central issues in Berkeley's work. The Three Dialogues is a dramatization of Berkeley's philosophy in which the two protagonists Hylas and Philonous debate the full range of Berkeleyan themes: the rejection of material substance, the nature of perception and reality, the limits of human knowledge, and his approach to the perceived threats of skepticism, atheism and immorality. When Berkeley presented his first statement of his immaterialist philosophy in the Principles of Human Knowledge three years earlier he was met with incredulity - how could a sane person deny the existence of matter? Berkeley felt that a new approach was needed in order to bring people over to his novel point of view. This new effort was the Three Dialogues. In the preface to the Three Dialogues Berkeley stated that its aim was to "treat more clearly and fully of certain principles laid down” in the Principles. Esteem for Berkeley's work has increased significantly in recent decades, and this volume will be the starting-point for future research.

Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019

Author : Yoav Meyrav
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110618834
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019 written by Yoav Meyrav and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general. The Yearbook 2016 was published as volume 1 in the series Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion. From 2017 onwards, the Yearbook is published as a separate series. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Studies and Texts in Scepticism and Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion.

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192517201
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism written by Steven Nadler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on René Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence) and philosophy, with chapters on his epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics. The chapters of the second part are devoted to the defense, development and modification of Descartes's ideas by later generations of Cartesian philosophers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and elsewhere. The third and final part considers the opposition to Cartesian philosophy by other philosophers, as well as by civil, ecclesiastic, and academic authorities. This handbook provides an extensive overview of Cartesianism - its doctrines, its legacies and its fortunes - in the period based on the latest research.

Oxford Studies of Metaethics 19

Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198911874
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies of Metaethics 19 written by Russ Shafer-Landau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.