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HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

3/22/2026 • 21 min

What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?

HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism
HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi
HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism
HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine
HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science
HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender
HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians
HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes

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