Occasionalism and mechanism: Fontenelle's objections to Malebranche

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2):293 – 313 (2008)
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It is well known that the French Cartesian Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) was both an occasionalist in metaphysics and a mechanist in physics. He consistently argued that God is the only true caus...

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