The causation debate in modern philosophy, 1637-1739 /

Clatterbaugh, Kenneth C

The causation debate in modern philosophy, 1637-1739 / Kenneth Clatterbaugh - New York : Routledge, 1999 - xi, 239 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231) and index

The debate -- Descartes: the metaphysics of causation -- Descartes: the epistemology of causation -- Classical mechanism: Hobbes and Gassendi -- The temptaton of occasionalism: Le Grand and Malebranche -- Causes and sufficient reason: Spinoza and Leibniz -- The limits of classical mechanism: Boyle, Rohault, and Newton -- The attempted alignment of philosophy and physics: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume -- Summation and final ironies

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