10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCCASIONALISM»
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occasionalism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
occasionalism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Occasionalism: Causation Among the Cartesians
These essays examine the philosophical, scientific, theological and religious themes and arguments of occasionalism, as well as its roots in medieval views on God and causality.
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Islamic
Occasionalism: And Its Critique by Averroes and Aquinas
His polemic against this occasionalism, as set forth in the Summer contra
Gentiles and De Potentia, coincides in the main with the Maimoniclean-Averroist
polemic (despite his ignorance of the anti-Ash'arite polemic of Averroe's in the
Taktifiti ...
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The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and ...
11. Natures,. Laws,. and. Miracles: The. Roots. of. Leibniz's. Critique. of.
Occasionalism. Donald P. Rutherford Leibniz regarded his theory of
preestablished harmony as offering the only plausible explanation of the
remarkable agreement of ...
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Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction
3.3 Occasionalism A variant of parallelism, 'occasionalism' accords God a more
active role in the world. Occasionalism is most often associated with the writings
of Nicholas Malebranche (1638-1715). My discussion will focus on
occasionalism ...
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Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith
While commentators have rightly noted an overlap in these arguments and John
Locke's posthumously published ones against seventeenth-century
occasionalism, I show that Astell 's two main criticisms of occasionalism are
prefigured in St ...
William Kolbrener, Michal Michelson, 2007
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Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through ...
The doctrine of occasionalism was, of course, central to seventeenth- century
metaphysics. On this widely held view, the changes that one body appears to
cause in another on impact, the changes that a body can cause in a mind in
producing ...
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Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the Seventeenth and ...
LEIBNIZ AND OCCASIONALISM Abstract. Towards the end of his life Leibniz
wrote that "the transition from pre- established harmony to occasional causes
doesn't seem very difficult". Nevertheless he was at pains to answer suggestions
that ...
MEDIEVAL REJECTIONS OF OCCASIONALISM 1.1.1. Medieval Islamic
Occasionalism Medieval Islamic occasionalism is an extraordinarily complex
historical phenomenon, involving various debates among Islamic theologians
and ...
Tad M. Schmaltz Professor of Philosophy Duke University, 2007
But Leibniz could never reconcile himself to the core thesis of occasionalism that
created substances are devoid of genuine causal powers; for Leibniz, it is of the
very essence ofsubstances to be sources of activity. In a characteristic way, ...
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A Metaphysics for the Mob : The Philosophy of George ...
V. Agency. and. Occasionalism. The 2 great Principles of Morality. The Being of a
God & the Freedom of Man: these to be handled in the beginning of the Second
Book.1 1. The Problems of Free Will The philosophical problems that are now ...
John Russell Roberts Assistant Professor of Philosophy Florida State University, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCCASIONALISM»
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occasionalism is used in the context of the following news items.
Lee Faculty Members Earn Promotion
... “Continuous Creation and Secondary Causation: The Threat of Occasionalism”; and “Solving Rule Consequentialism's Acceptance Rate ... «The Chattanoogan, Jul 15»
The coherence of philosophy
... Islamic Civilization into a "dysfunctional culture based on a deformed theology" locked in determinism, occasionalism and ultimately fatalism. «The Nation, May 15»
Register Radio - How Should Catholics Respond to Radical Islam?
“Within Christianity, even though there have been similar movements toward voluntarism and occasionalism — the denial of cause and effect in ... «National Catholic Register, Jan 15»
Who Has the Authority to Write Theology?
The Church as an institution correlates with books, bound and copyrighted, but Saler's ecclesiological occasionalism is a church for bloggers, ... «First Things, Nov 14»
From The New Yorker, More Malarkey on Darwin's Doubt
... tinkerer, which is about as plausible a criticism as Stephen Meredith and John Derbyshire's claim that ID is just reinvented "occasionalism.". «Discovery Institute, Apr 14»
What I Learned from My Visit to the National Center for Science …
In my response to Meredith, I refuted the charge of occasionalism, but Branch didn't want to get involved in that refutation, and I am sure that ... «Discovery Institute, Apr 14»
Am I an Occasionalist? Christian Philosophy and Intelligent Design
He charges that intelligent design assumes the philosophy of "occasionalism," which has been expressed by al-Ghazali and al-Razi in the ... «Discovery Institute, Mar 14»
Will The American Spectator Publish My Comment Defending …
ID-critic John Derbyshire's recent accusations that intelligent design has connections to "occasionalism" or "fundamentalist Islam" wasn't one of ... «Discovery Institute, Feb 14»
Lee University Tenures Three Faculty
... Defence of Continuous Creation,” and “Continuous Creation and Secondary Causation: The Threat of Occasionalism in Religious Studies”. «The Chattanoogan, Feb 14»
At First Things, Columnist Stephen Webb Gives Intelligent-Design …
How they both came up with the bit about occasionalism is a question ... Meredith also equates occasionalism with the interventionist view of ... «Discovery Institute, Feb 14»
