PHL210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Occasionalism, Knowledge Argument

• School: UTM
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL210Y5
• Professor: Marleen Rozemond

Document Summary

Also thinks like descartes, mind and body carteisian. There are major differences however: an extension and solution to what descartes stands for. View of malebranche: occasionalism, theory of causation according to which creatures are not true causes but only occasional causes. It must be a mind: there are infinite and finite minds, however, when a mind wants to move, it can fail due to other reasons, no necessary connection between a finite will and a body"s movement. Since no body can move it self, no body can transfer its power to a second body. In order for a body to move another body, it must have its own power to transfer. First body is not moving itself, therefore cant move another. ^ this is malebranche"s first argument (these three points in one) Second argument (knowledge argument: male(cid:271)ra(cid:374)(cid:272)he thi(cid:374)ks that regardless of the (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) for ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t know all the movements that are involved.