Divine will and the mechanical philosophy : Gassendi and Descartes on contingency and necessity in the created world, Margaret J. Osler, (electronic resource)

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Divine will and the mechanical philosophy : Gassendi and Descartes on contingency and necessity in the created world

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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Contents: 1. Divine power and divine will in the Middle Ages: Historical and conceptual background -- 2. Baptizing Epicurean philosophy: Gassendi on divine will and the philosophy of nature -- 3. Providence and human freedom in Christian Epicureanism: Gassendi on fortune, fate, and divination -- 4. Theology, metaphysics, and epistemology: Gassendi's "science of appearances" -- 5. Eternal truths and the laws of nature: The theological foundations of Descartes' philosophy of nature -- 6. Gassendi and Descartes in conflict -- 7. Introduction: Theories of matter and their epistemological roots -- 8. Gassendi's atomism: An empirical theory of matter -- 9. Mathematizing nature: Descartes' geometrical theory of matter -- 10. Conclusion: Theology transformed -- the emergence of styles of science

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