Descartes on Causation

Name: Descartes on Causation
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ISBN: 9780195327946

ISBN-10: 0195327942

ISBN-13: 9780195327946

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tad M. Schmaltz

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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…

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List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



The Scholastic Context



Medieval Rejections of Occasionalism



Suarez on Efficient Causes and Concursus



From Suarez to Descartes



Two Causal Axioms



The Containment Axiom



The Conservation Axiom



From Axioms to Causation



Causation in Physics



God as Universal and Primary Cause



Laws as Particular and Secondary Causes



Descartes's Conservationist Physics



Causation in Psychology



Mind-Body Interaction and Union



Body-to-Mind Action



Mind-to-Body Action



Causation and Freedom



Jesuit Freedom and Created Truth



Indifference and Human Freedom



Human Freedom and Divine Providence


Conclusion


Works Cited


Index