Louis de La Forge and the ‘Non-Transfer Argument’ for Occasionalism.

In this paper, I investigate Louis de La Forge's argument against body–body causation. His general strategy exploits the impossibility of bodies communicating their movement by transfer of motion. I call this the ‘non-transfer’ argument (NT). NT allows La Forge both to reinterpret continuous creatio...

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Publicado en:	British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 60 - 81
Autor principal:	Sangiacomo, Andrea
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2014
Materias:	Mind & body Occasionalism Descartes, René, 1596-1650 De la Forge, Louis Motion Philosophy Seventeenth century
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