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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Occasionalism"”.
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Louis de la Forge on Mind-Body Interaction and the Case Against Occasionalism
… and wittingly or unwittingly embracing occasionalism. In my dissertation project, I have made mind-body not body-body cases the starting point of the inquiry into cartesian causal interactionism and from there developed a general model of interaction. This goes against the scholarly norm …
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Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche
… Malebranche was one of the leading proponents of occasionalism, the view that God is directly responsible for all change in the created world. For Malebranche, occasionalism is an appropriately Christian philosophy---that is, it takes seriously the Christian belief that we ought to worship God …
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Malebranche's Augustinianism and the Mind's Perfection
… principles of his system, namely, his occasionalism, divine illumination, and freedom. To demonstrate this, I first present, in chapter one, Malebranche’s philosophy within the historical and intellectual context of his membership in the French Oratory, arguing that the Oratory’s …
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Towards a legal history of white women in the Transvaal, 1877-1899
… concepts like ‘history as performance’ and ‘occasionalism’ are significant. Of course, an eye must also firmly be held on concepts such as ‘gender’ and ‘deconstruction’, since it dictates how one should approach one’s sources. A history of the Transvaal is necessary, for when studying the …