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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I.1 Occasionalism and the Early Modern German Debate about Causation -- I.2 Focus -- I.3 The Status quaestionis-A Meta-Historical and Meta-Philosophical Map -- I.3.1 The History of Historical-Philosophical Research on Occasionalism -- I.3.2 Conceptual Tools -- I.3.3 Grounding -- I.4 Incipit Historia-Leibniz and Occasionalism -- I.5 Contribution to the Debate and Structure of This Book -- Notes |
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Chapter 1: Erhard Weigel: Continuous Creation, Discontinuous Time, and Occasionalism -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Philosophical Foundations: Essence and Existence -- 1.3 Time, Change, and Causation -- 1.4 Occasionalism -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Johann Christoph Sturm: Mechanism, Occasionalism, and Final Causes -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Constitution of Natural Bodies -- 2.3 Occasionalism -- 2.3.1 The Argument from Spatio-Temporal Grounding -- 2.3.2 A Second-Line of Arguing for Occasionalism -- 2.4 Final Causes -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Notes |
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Chapter 3: Christian Wolff: Mind-Body Interaction, Language, and Occasionalism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Wolff's Early Position Concerning Occasionalism -- 3.2.1 Wolff's Flirtation with Occasionalism: The Disquisitio philosophica de loquela -- 3.2.1.1 Mind-Body and Body-Mind Occasionalism -- 3.2.1.2 Body-Body Occasionalism -- 3.3 Initial Doubts about Occasionalism: Wolff's Correspondence with Leibniz -- 3.4 Wolff's Mature Philosophy: Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy -- 3.4.1 Grounding the World -- 3.4.1.1 The Material Cause and Matter -- 3.4.1.2 The Formal Cause and Essence |
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3.4.1.3 The Efficient Cause and Existence -- 3.4.1.4 The Final Cause and Teleology -- 3.4.2 Critique of Cartesian Physics -- 3.5 Critique and Rejection of Occasionalism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Gottfried Ploucquet: Occasionalism and the Grounding of Sense-Perception -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Ploucquet's Philosophical Foundations -- 4.3 The Mind-Body Problem and the Grounding of Sense-Perceptions -- 4.4 Occasionalism -- 4.4.1 Ploucquet's Representationalist Occasionalism -- 4.4.2 Renunciation of Occasionalism and Endorsement of Physical Influx -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Notes |
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Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix: Biographical Sketches -- A.1 Erhard Weigel -- A.2 Johann Christoph Sturm -- A.3 Christian Wolff -- A.4 Gottfried Ploucquet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
| Summary |
This is the first book to focus on occasionalism in early modern German philosophy. It demonstrates that occasionalism provided a strong foundation for the thought of four important yet underexamined German philosophers: Erhard Weigel, Johann Christoph Sturm, Christian Wolff, and Gottfried Ploucquet |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040012413 |
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1040012418 |
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