Image from Coce

Malebranche / Andrew Pyle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arguments of the philosophersPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: xiii, 289 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415289114
  • 9780415289115
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 21
LOC classification:
  • B1897 .P95 2003
Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction 1. Life and Works 2. Descartes and Augustine 3. Faith and Reason 4. Difficulties Chapter Two: Tensions in Cartesian Metaphysics 1. Richard Watson's "Downfall of Cartesianism" 2. Descartes on Ideas 3. Later Cartesians on Ideas 4. Descartes on Causation 5. Later Cartesians on Causation Chapter Three: The Vision in God 1. The Argument for Ideas 2. The Eliminative Argument for the Vision in God 3. The Argument from Properties 4. Intelligible Extension 5. Efficacious Ideas 6. Nadler's Malebranche Chapter Four: The Dispute with Arnauld 1. Arnauld's Vraies et Fausses Idees 2. Malebranche's Defence of the Vision in God 3. What was at stake? Arnauld's Version 4. What was at stake? Malebranche's Version 5. Deeper Reasons for the Conflict. Chapter Five: Malebranche on Causation: Occasionalism and Continuous Creation 1. How not to think of Occasionalism 2. The Idea of Necessary Connection 3. Particular Causal Relations 4. Continuous Creation 5. Continuous Creation and Volontes Generales 6. The Best of all Possible Worlds? 7. Objections and Replies Chapter 6: Malebranche's Physics: The Laws of Motion 1. Malebranche's Cartesian Inheritance 2. The Philosophical Foundations of Physics 3. First Revision of Descartes: drop the 'Force of Rest' 4. Second Revision of Descartes: drop the Scalar Conservation Principle 5. Third Revision of Descartes: drop hard bodies 6. Is Malebranche an empiricist malgre lui? Chapter Seven: Malebranche's Biology 1. Nature and Supernature Chapter Eight: The Downfall of Malebranchism 1. Metaphysical Difficulties 2. Epistemological Difficulties 3. Ethical Difficulties 4. Theological Difficulties 5. Malebranche's Influence -- --
1. Introduction -- 2. Tensions in Cartesian metaphysics -- 3. The Vision in God -- 4. The dispute with Arnauld over the nature of ideas -- 5. Occasionalism and continuous creation -- 6. Malebranche's modifications of Cartesian physics -- 7. Malebranche's biology -- 8. Malebranche on the soul and self-knowledge -- 9. Malebranche on freedom, grace and the will -- 10. The downfall of Malebranchism.
Review: "Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most important philosophers of the seventeenth century after Descartes, and one of the ablest champions and most penetrating critics of Cartesian ideas." "Andrew Pyle examines the entirety of Malebranche's writings, including the famous Search After Truth, which was admired and criticised by both Leibniz and Locke. Pyle presents an integrated account of Malebranche's central theses, occasionalism and the 'Vision in God'. He goes on to explore and assess Malebranche's contribution to debates on physics and biology, and his views on the soul, self-knowledge, grace and the freedom of the will." "This penetrating and wide-ranging study will be of interest to philosophers and also to historians of science and philosophy, theologians, and students of the Enlightenment or seventeenth-century thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 194 PYL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A411354B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.

Chapter One: Introduction 1. Life and Works 2. Descartes and Augustine 3. Faith and Reason 4. Difficulties Chapter Two: Tensions in Cartesian Metaphysics 1. Richard Watson's "Downfall of Cartesianism" 2. Descartes on Ideas 3. Later Cartesians on Ideas 4. Descartes on Causation 5. Later Cartesians on Causation Chapter Three: The Vision in God 1. The Argument for Ideas 2. The Eliminative Argument for the Vision in God 3. The Argument from Properties 4. Intelligible Extension 5. Efficacious Ideas 6. Nadler's Malebranche Chapter Four: The Dispute with Arnauld 1. Arnauld's Vraies et Fausses Idees 2. Malebranche's Defence of the Vision in God 3. What was at stake? Arnauld's Version 4. What was at stake? Malebranche's Version 5. Deeper Reasons for the Conflict. Chapter Five: Malebranche on Causation: Occasionalism and Continuous Creation 1. How not to think of Occasionalism 2. The Idea of Necessary Connection 3. Particular Causal Relations 4. Continuous Creation 5. Continuous Creation and Volontes Generales 6. The Best of all Possible Worlds? 7. Objections and Replies Chapter 6: Malebranche's Physics: The Laws of Motion 1. Malebranche's Cartesian Inheritance 2. The Philosophical Foundations of Physics 3. First Revision of Descartes: drop the 'Force of Rest' 4. Second Revision of Descartes: drop the Scalar Conservation Principle 5. Third Revision of Descartes: drop hard bodies 6. Is Malebranche an empiricist malgre lui? Chapter Seven: Malebranche's Biology 1. Nature and Supernature Chapter Eight: The Downfall of Malebranchism 1. Metaphysical Difficulties 2. Epistemological Difficulties 3. Ethical Difficulties 4. Theological Difficulties 5. Malebranche's Influence -- --

1. Introduction -- 2. Tensions in Cartesian metaphysics -- 3. The Vision in God -- 4. The dispute with Arnauld over the nature of ideas -- 5. Occasionalism and continuous creation -- 6. Malebranche's modifications of Cartesian physics -- 7. Malebranche's biology -- 8. Malebranche on the soul and self-knowledge -- 9. Malebranche on freedom, grace and the will -- 10. The downfall of Malebranchism.

"Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was one of the most important philosophers of the seventeenth century after Descartes, and one of the ablest champions and most penetrating critics of Cartesian ideas." "Andrew Pyle examines the entirety of Malebranche's writings, including the famous Search After Truth, which was admired and criticised by both Leibniz and Locke. Pyle presents an integrated account of Malebranche's central theses, occasionalism and the 'Vision in God'. He goes on to explore and assess Malebranche's contribution to debates on physics and biology, and his views on the soul, self-knowledge, grace and the freedom of the will." "This penetrating and wide-ranging study will be of interest to philosophers and also to historians of science and philosophy, theologians, and students of the Enlightenment or seventeenth-century thought."--BOOK JACKET.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha