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Descartes on Causation
ISBN: 9780195327946 | 0195327942
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/1/2007
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Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument presented here is that even though Descartes offered a dualistic ontology that differs radically from what we find in scholasticism, his views on causation were profoundly influenced by scholastic thought on this issue. This influence is evident not only in his... MORE
This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument presented here is that even though Descartes offered a dualistic ontology that differs radically from what we find in scholasticism, his views on causation were profoundly influenced by scholastic thought on this issue. This influence is evident not only in his... MORE
| Abbreviations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Scholastic Context | p. 9 |
| Medieval Rejections of Occasionalism | p. 12 |
| Suarez on Efficient Causes and Concursus | p. 24 |
| From Suarez to Descartes | p. 44 |
| Two Causal Axioms | p. 49 |
| The Containment Axiom | p. 51 |
| The Conservation Axiom | p. 71 |
| From Axioms to Causation | p. 84 | ... MORE
| Causation in Physics | p. 87 |
| God as Universal and Primary Cause | p. 89 |
| Laws as Particular and Secondary Causes | p. 105 |
| Descartes's Conservationist Physics | p. 125 |
| Causation in Psychology | p. 129 |
| Mind-Body Interaction and Union | p. 131 |
| Body-to-Mind Action | p. 145 |
| Mind-to-Body Action | p. 163 |
| Causation and Freedom | p. 178 |
| Jesuit Freedom and Created Truth | p. 180 |
| Indifference and Human Freedom | p. 192 |
| Human Freedom and Divine Providence | p. 208 |
| Conclusion | p. 217 |
| Works Cited | p. 221 |
| Index | p. 231 |
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