This is the first book to focus on occasionalism in early modern German philosophy. It demonstrates that occasionalism provided a strong foundation for the thought of four important yet underexamined German philosophers: Erhard Weigel, Johann Christoph Sturm, Christian Wolff, and Gottfried Ploucquet.
This is the first book to focus on occasionalism in early modern German philosophy. It demonstrates that occasionalism provided a strong foundation for the thought of four important yet underexamined German philosophers: Erhard Weigel, Johann Christoph Sturm, Christian Wolff, and Gottfried Ploucquet.
Christian Henkel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Montreal, Canada. His work focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century metaphysics and natural philosophy. His published work has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Early Science and Medicine.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Erhard Weigel. Continuous Creation Discontinuous Time and Occasionalism 2. Johann Christoph Sturm. Mechanism Occasionalism and Final Causes 3. Christian Wolff. Mind-body Interaction Language and Occasionalism 4. Gottfried Ploucquet. Occasionalism and the Grounding of Sense-Perception Conclusion Appendix: Biographical Sketches
Introduction 1. Erhard Weigel. Continuous Creation Discontinuous Time and Occasionalism 2. Johann Christoph Sturm. Mechanism Occasionalism and Final Causes 3. Christian Wolff. Mind-body Interaction Language and Occasionalism 4. Gottfried Ploucquet. Occasionalism and the Grounding of Sense-Perception Conclusion Appendix: Biographical Sketches
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