Descartes on causation / Tad M. Schmaltz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmaltz, Tad M., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work 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.

Contents:

1 The Scholastic Context

1.1. Medieval Rejections of Occasionalism

1.2. Suárez on Efficient Causes and Concursus

1.3. From Suárez to Descartes

2 Two Causal Axioms

2.1. The Containment Axiom

2.2. The Conservation Axiom

2.3. From Axioms to Causation

3 Causation in Physics

3.1. God as Universal and Primary Cause

3.2. Laws as Particular and Secondary Causes

3.3. Descartes's Conservationist Physics

4 Causation in Psychology

4.1. Mind

Body Interaction and Union

4.2. Body-to-Mind Action

4.3. Mind-to-Body Action

5 Causation and Freedom

5.1. Jesuit Freedom and Created Truth

5.2. Indifference and Human Freedom

5.3. Human Freedom and Divine Providence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-995850-5

1-281-16560-3

9786611165604

0-19-804390-2

1-4356-2045-3

OCLC:

922953188