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Abstract According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something.
Nathaniel Baron‐Schmitt
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Le Traité de l’infini créé et Malebranche : la subversion du sens [PDF]
Le rapport entre l’Infini créé et Malebranche est aussi étroit que complexe. Ce traité a en effet circulé et a été imprimé sous le nom de l’Oratorien, supercherie manifeste pour les plus fins connaisseurs de la pensée de Malebranche, mais qui, pourtant ...
Del Prete, Antonella
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The young Leibniz's tentative acceptance of physical occasionalism
Abstract In this article, I revisit Leibniz's early views on physical causation, more specifically, his relation to physical occasionalism focusing on the period from 1668 to 1676. An in‐depth analysis of the Confession of Nature against the Atheists taken together with the Catholic Demonstrations, Leibniz's correspondence with Jakob Thomasius from ...
Christian Henkel
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O O Papel Epistemológico da Consciência na Recherche de la Vérité de Nicolas Malebranche
O artigo discute o papel epistemológico da consciência na Recherche de la Vérité de Nicolas Malebranche. Após apresentar o problema de como uma visão epistemologicamente negativa da consciência poderia representar um obstáculo para o projeto de ...
Vinícius França Freitas
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Consciousness as Inner Sensation: Crusius and Kant [PDF]
What is it that makes a mental state conscious? Recent commentators have proposed that for Kant, consciousness results from differentiation: A mental state is conscious insofar as it is distinguished, by means of our conceptual capacities, from other ...
Indregard, Jonas Jervell
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Full‐service sex workers (FSSWs) are at heightened risk of contracting HIV due to facing multi‐level challenges to sexual health. This study investigated factors associated with willingness to use Pre‐Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—a daily HIV preventative medication, among FSSWs. Using social–ecological theory, an online survey was developed with initial
Stephen D. Ramos, Steff Du Bois
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Hume’s Theory of Causation: Is There More Than One? [PDF]
It is traditionally assumed that there is only one theory of causality in Hume's writings. In this article it is shown that we can distinguish between an early and mature theory.
Hill, James
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Continuous creation in the probabilistic world of the theology of Chance
The aim of the paper is to present and analyze the doctrine of continuous creation typical for theism. Continuous creation is conceived of as divine causal action consisting in God’s bringing about the existence of any being at every moment of its ...
Dariusz Łukasiewicz
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Angels, beasts, machines, and men: Configuring the human and nonhuman in Judaeo-Christian tradition [PDF]
This is the author's pdf version of the book chapter.This book chapter offers four snapshots from the Judaeo-Christian tradition of the theological significance of the distinction between human and nonhuman ...
Clough, David
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MALEBRANCHE DÜŞÜNCESİNDE DİN-FELSEFE İLİŞKİSİ
İnsanın beşeri tecrübe alanlarından ikisini oluşturan din ve felsefe, aynı zamanda sosyal hayatında iki yönünü oluşturmaktadır. Din ve felsefe, bu özelliğinden dolayı da her zaman aralarında bir ilişki bulunmak kaydıyla tarihte yer almıştır.
Haydar Dölek
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