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Journal Article
François Lamy, Occasionalism, and the Force of Rest
2025
Overview
In this paper, I offer a thorough examination of the nature and extent of François Lamy’s occasionalism (including the ways in which his argumentation for this doctrine often differs from that of his mentor, Malebranche). I then examine what Lamy takes to be an important ramification in the realm of physics of the central argument for occasionalism that he shares with Malebranche. This move by Lamy, a departure from his general fealty to Malebranche, though based on their common understanding of God’s causal role with respect to body-body relations, leaves Malebranche as an outlier in Cartesian physics.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
