This paper presents the first systematic investigation into Johann Christoph Sturm's natural philosophy and his account of causation and scientific explanations. While Sturm maintains that God is the only true cause of natural effects, he also claims that the specificity of natural effects must be empirically investigated by inquiring into natural forms. Forms, however, do not have any active role in the causal process that brings the phenomenon about, but they only account for its specific features. To articulate this view, Sturm engages with a number of crucial topics discussed by seventeenth-century authors, such as the rejection of scholastic substantial forms and the occasionalist claim that only God is the true efficacious cause of na...
This project traces shifts in understandings of causation from the premodern to the early modern per...
This paper aims to counter the recent opinion that there is a peculiar epistemology in the reformed ...
Ancient Greek philosophers were the first to postulate the possibility of explaining nature in theor...
This paper presents the first systematic investigation into Johann Christoph Sturm's natural philoso...
This paper presents the first systematic investigation into Johann Christoph Sturm's natural philoso...
Although several of Descartes's disciples established occasionalism as the natural outcome of Cartes...
From the second half of the seventeenth century systematic experimentation had increasingly come to ...
The ‘model approach’ facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large corpor...
Some problems of causation in contemporary philosophy have foundations in the work of 17th Century p...
Although several of Descartes's disciples established occasionalism as the natural outcome of Cartes...
Could God have made it true that 2 + 2 = 5? Was he bound to make the best of all possible worlds? Is...
This dissertation analyses how occasionalism provides a solid metaphysical foundation for early mode...
This monographic issue of History of Universities presents new materials and case studies in order t...
This project traces shifts in understandings of causation from the premodern to the early modern per...
This paper aims to counter the recent opinion that there is a peculiar epistemology in the reformed ...
Ancient Greek philosophers were the first to postulate the possibility of explaining nature in theor...
This paper presents the first systematic investigation into Johann Christoph Sturm's natural philoso...
This paper presents the first systematic investigation into Johann Christoph Sturm's natural philoso...
Although several of Descartes's disciples established occasionalism as the natural outcome of Cartes...
From the second half of the seventeenth century systematic experimentation had increasingly come to ...
The ‘model approach’ facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large corpor...
Some problems of causation in contemporary philosophy have foundations in the work of 17th Century p...
Although several of Descartes's disciples established occasionalism as the natural outcome of Cartes...
Could God have made it true that 2 + 2 = 5? Was he bound to make the best of all possible worlds? Is...
This dissertation analyses how occasionalism provides a solid metaphysical foundation for early mode...
This monographic issue of History of Universities presents new materials and case studies in order t...
This project traces shifts in understandings of causation from the premodern to the early modern per...
This paper aims to counter the recent opinion that there is a peculiar epistemology in the reformed ...
Ancient Greek philosophers were the first to postulate the possibility of explaining nature in theor...