Descartes on causation /

Descartes on causation /

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Author / Creator:Schmaltz, Tad M., 1960-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650.
Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650.
Causation.
Causation.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6633579
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ISBN:9780195327946 (cloth edition)
0195327942 (cloth edition)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Scholastic Context
  • 1.1. Medieval Rejections of Occasionalism
  • 1.2. Suarez on Efficient Causes and Concursus
  • 1.3. From Suarez to Descartes
  • 2. Two Causal Axioms
  • 2.1. The Containment Axiom
  • 2.2. The Conservation Axiom
  • 2.3. From Axioms to Causation
  • 3. Causation in Physics
  • 3.1. God as Universal and Primary Cause
  • 3.2. Laws as Particular and Secondary Causes
  • 3.3. Descartes's Conservationist Physics
  • 4. Causation in Psychology
  • 4.1. Mind-Body Interaction and Union
  • 4.2. Body-to-Mind Action
  • 4.3. Mind-to-Body Action
  • 5. Causation and Freedom
  • 5.1. Jesuit Freedom and Created Truth
  • 5.2. Indifference and Human Freedom
  • 5.3. Human Freedom and Divine Providence
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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