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HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

22/03/2026

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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What led Malebranche to his notorious view that all bodily motions and thoughts are caused by God, with created things serving only as “occasions” for divine action?

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D'autres épisodes de "History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps"

HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche

HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic

HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism

HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism

HoP 481 True Fool’s Gold: Pierre Gassendi

HoP 480 Honorable Ignorance: French Skepticism