One True Cause: Causal Powers, Divine Concurrence, and the Seventeenth-Century Revival of Occasionalism

ISBN-13: 9780190941796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 396 str.

Andrew R. Platt

Recenzje

In One True Cause, Andrew Platt offers a textually informed and philosophically sophisticated treatment of the issue of occasionalism in early modern Cartesianism that takes into account the relevant scholastic background. Particularly noteworthy here are the extended arguments against occasionalist readings of Descartes and his follower Clauberg and the consistent emphasis on the differences in both the forms of and theoretical motives for Cartesian occasionalism in the work of Guelincx, La Forge, Cordemoy and Malebranche.

O autorze

Andrew Platt is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He has previously held visiting positions at St. Cloud State University, the University of Delaware, and Central Michigan University.