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Descartes on causation/ Tad M. Schmaltz.

By: Schmaltz, Tad MMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2008Description: xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780195327946 (cloth edition); 0195327942 (cloth edition)Subject(s): CausationDDC classification: 122.092

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	122.092 SCH/D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P18208

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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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