Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany - Christian Henkel

Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany

Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-71041-9 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
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.

Occasionalism is most often associated with Cartesian early modern Christian philosophers, the most famous of whom is perhaps Nicolas Malebranche. Early modern German occasionalism has received very little scholarly attention, leaving us with an incomplete picture of the German causation debate from Leibniz to Kant. This book combines a chronological investigation of four influential and historically connected cases of occasionalism in early modern Germany with a reconstruction of arguments to address specific problems in metaphysics, natural philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of psychology. Providing a sufficient ground for nature and human beings’ mental and physical existence is a pressing issue for Weigel, Sturm, Wolff, and Ploucquet. In examining the thought of these four understudied German philosophers, this book helps us rethink the relation between metaphysics of nature and science of nature and better understand the development of early modern debates about causation.

Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany is an important resource for scholars and advanced students working on the history of early modern philosophy and the history of metaphysics and causation.

Christian Henkel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal, Canada. His work focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century metaphysics and natural philosophy. His published work has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Early Science and Medicine.

Introduction 1. Erhard Weigel. Continuous Creation, Discontinuous Time, and Occasionalism 2. Johann Christoph Sturm. Mechanism, Occasionalism, and Final Causes 3. Christian Wolff. Mind-body Interaction, Language, and Occasionalism 4. Gottfried Ploucquet. Occasionalism and the Grounding of Sense-Perception Conclusion Appendix: Biographical Sketches

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 530 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 1-032-71041-1 / 1032710411
ISBN-13 978-1-032-71041-9 / 9781032710419
Zustand Neuware
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