History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism

What inspired the occasionalist theory embraced by the 17th century Cartesians? We find out from a leading specialist on the topic.

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  HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

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  HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche

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  HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic

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  HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism

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  HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

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  HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

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  HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

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  HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism

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  HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi

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  HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism

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  HoP 479 Gideon Manning on Cartesian Medicine

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  HoP 478 This Gland Is Your Gland: Cartesian Science

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  HoP 477 The Mind Has No Sex: Cartesianism and Gender

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  HoP 476 What He Should Have Said: the Early Cartesians

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  HoP 475 Ariane Schneck on Elisabeth and Descartes