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Overview
One theme is the continuing debate over the nature of causality in the period from Descartes to Hume. Jolley shows that, despite his revolutionary stance, Descartes did no serious re-thinking about causality; it was left to his unorthodox disciple Malebranche to argue that there is no place for natural causality in the new mechanistic picture of the physical world. Several essays explore critical reactions to Malebranche's occasionalism in the writings of Leibniz, Berkeley, and Hume, and show how in their different ways Leibniz and Hume respond to Malebranche by re-instating the traditional view that science is the search for causes.
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- ISBN-13: 9781987660685
- ISBN-10: 1987660684
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: April 2018
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.45 pounds
- Page Count: 282
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