Unlike many of Descartes's other followers, Pierre-Sylvain Régis resists the temptations of occasionalism. By marrying the ontology of mechanism with the causal structure of concurrentism, Régis arrives at a novel view that both acknowledges God's role in natural events and preserves the causal powers of bodies. I set out Régis's position, focusing on his arguments against occasionalism and his responses to Malebranche's `no necessary connection' and divine concursus arguments. Keywords: Pierre-Sylvain Régis; Causation; René Descartes; Nicolas Malebranche; Occasionalism; Power; Conceivability
...MoreDescription On the work of the 17th-century philosopher Pierre-Sylvain Régis “that both acknowledges God's role in natural events and preserves the causal powers of bodies.” (from the abstract)
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