Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes

A Companion to Descartes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-250

  Rocca, Michael Della ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristotelianism; Causation; Descartes; God; Hume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861070658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696439.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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