Schmaltz, Tad M.,

Descartes on causation/ Tad M. Schmaltz. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2008. - xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.

1. The Scholastic Context
1.1. Medieval Rejections of Occasionalism
1.2. Su rez on Efficient Causes and Concursus
1.3. From Su rez to Descartes
2. Two Causal Axioms
2.1. The Containment Axiom
2.2. The Conservation Axiom
2.3. From Axioms to Causation
3. Causation in Physics
3.1. God as Universal and Primary Cause
3.2. Laws as Particular and Secondary Causes
3.3. Descartes¿s Conservationist Physics
4. Causation in Psychology
4.1. Mind¿Body Interaction and Union
4.2. Body-to-Mind Action
4.3. Mind-to-Body Action
5. Causation and Freedom
5.1. Jesuit Freedom and Created Truth
5.2. Indifference and Human Freedom
5.3. Human Freedom and Divine Providence

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Causation.

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