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Descartes on Causation (Hardcover)
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Descartes on Causation (Hardcover)
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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 affirmation in the Meditations of the abstract
scholastic axioms that a cause must contain the reality of its
effects and that conservation does not differ in reality from
creation, but also in the details of the accounts of body-body
interaction in his physics, of mind-body interaction in his
psychology, and of the causation that he took to be involved in
free human action. In contrast to those who have read Descartes as
endorsing the "occasionalist" conclusion that God is the only real
cause, a central thesis of this study is that he accepted what in
the context of scholastic debates regarding causation is the
antipode of occasionalism, namely, the view that creatures rather
than God are the causal source of natural change. What emerges from
the defense of this interpretation of Descartes is a new
understanding of his contribution to modern thought on causation.
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