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Causation, in modern philosophy

By Boehm, Miren; Palatnik, Nataliya

The new science of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sparked intense reflection and theorizing on the nature of causation. Philosophers attempted to account for the nature of causation ...

10. Kant’s ‘critical turn’

4. Malebranche’s occasionalism and Mary Astell’s defense of God

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5. Leibniz’s pre-established harmony theory of causation

9. Hume: two definitions of ‘cause’

6. Leibniz’s criticism of influx theories of causation

7. Leibniz’s criticism of occasionalist theories of causation

2. Descartes: the interactionist reading

1. Introduction

Bibliography

8. Hume: our idea of causation

3. Descartes: occasionalism, and the ‘no metaphysics’ alternative

11. Kant’s defence of the causal principle