TY - BOOK AU - Clatterbaugh,Kenneth C TI - The causation debate in modern philosophy, 1637-1739 SN - 0415914760 (hardcover) U1 - ARCH YNDC 122.09 C614C PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Causation N1 - 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 ER -