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The causation debate in modern philosophy, 1637-1739 / Kenneth Clatterbaugh

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1999Description: xi, 239 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0415914760 (hardcover)
  • 0415914779 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 122.09 C614C
Contents:
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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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 122.09 C614C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 064046

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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