Occasionalism and the Debate about Causation in Early Modern Germany

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	I.1 Occasionalism and the Early Modern German Debate about Causation
	I.2 Focus
	I.3 The Status quaestionis—A Meta-Historical and Meta-Philosophical Map
		I.3.1 The History of Historical-Philosophical Research on Occasionalism
		I.3.2 Conceptual Tools
		I.3.3 Grounding
	I.4 Incipit Historia—Leibniz and Occasionalism
	I.5 Contribution to the Debate and Structure of This Book
	Notes
Chapter 1: Erhard Weigel: Continuous Creation, Discontinuous Time, and Occasionalism
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Philosophical Foundations: Essence and Existence
	1.3 Time, Change, and Causation
	1.4 Occasionalism
	1.5 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: Johann Christoph Sturm: Mechanism, Occasionalism, and Final Causes
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 The Constitution of Natural Bodies
	2.3 Occasionalism
		2.3.1 The Argument from Spatio-Temporal Grounding
		2.3.2 A Second-Line of Arguing for Occasionalism
	2.4 Final Causes
	2.5 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Christian Wolff: Mind-Body Interaction, Language, and Occasionalism
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Wolff’s Early Position Concerning Occasionalism
		3.2.1 Wolff’s Flirtation with Occasionalism: The Disquisitio philosophica de loquela
			3.2.1.1 Mind-Body and Body-Mind Occasionalism
			3.2.1.2 Body–Body Occasionalism
	3.3 Initial Doubts about Occasionalism: Wolff’s Correspondence with Leibniz
	3.4 Wolff’s Mature Philosophy: Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
		3.4.1 Grounding the World
			3.4.1.1 The Material Cause and Matter
			3.4.1.2 The Formal Cause and Essence
			3.4.1.3 The Efficient Cause and Existence
			3.4.1.4 The Final Cause and Teleology
		3.4.2 Critique of Cartesian Physics
	3.5 Critique and Rejection of Occasionalism
	3.6 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Gottfried Ploucquet: Occasionalism and the Grounding of Sense-Perception
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Ploucquet’s Philosophical Foundations
	4.3 The Mind-Body Problem and the Grounding of Sense-Perceptions
	4.4 Occasionalism
		4.4.1 Ploucquet’s Representationalist Occasionalism
		4.4.2 Renunciation of Occasionalism and Endorsement of Physical Influx
	4.5 Conclusion
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Appendix: Biographical Sketches
	A.1 Erhard Weigel
	A.2 Johann Christoph Sturm
	A.3 Christian Wolff
	A.4 Gottfried Ploucquet
	Notes
Bibliography
	Primary Sources
	Secondary Literature
Name Index
Subject Index