Articles about Occasionalism

Articles Resources (2020-2025)

Ablondi, Fred. "On Splitting the Atom: Cordemoy's Cartesianism and the Indivisibility of Bodies." History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 3, 1 July 2023, pp. 222–236. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521026.40.3.03.
Ahmadizade, A. "Quasi-Occasionalistic Causation in the Philosophy of René Descartes." Journal of Philosophical Theological Research, vol. 22, no. 83, 2020, pp. 127–146. doi:10.22091/jptr.2020.4906.2219.
Akar, Metin. “Okasyonalizme İtirazlar ve Verilen Cevaplar: Diyalektik Bir Çözümleme.” MetaZihin, 5(1), 2022, pp. 67-88. [Objections to Occasionalism and Corresponding Answers: A Dialectical Analysis]
Akdağ, Özcan. "Thomas Aquinas’ın Vesilecilik Eleştirisi ve Temelleri." İslami Araştırmalar, vol. 27, no. 2, 2016, pp. 183-192. [Thomas Aquinas’ Critique of Occasionalism and Its Basics]
Anchassi, Omar. "Against Ptolemy? Cosmography in Early Kalam." The Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 142, no. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2022.
Awad, Amal A. "Al-Rāzī on the Theologians’ Materialism." Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 1, 2023, pp. 83–111.
Bayam, Emine Gören. "Concurrentism as a Theory of Divine Causation." Artuklu Akademi, vol. 10, no. 2, Dec. 2023, pp. 183–198.
Bayam, Emine Gören."Nicolas Malebranche’ın Okasyonalizminde İnsan Özgürlüğü". Fırat Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 28/2 (Aralık 2023), 219-231. DOI: 10.58568/firatilahiyat.1362670. [Human Freedom in Nicolas Malebranche’s Occasionalism]
Baysal, Erkan. " Eş‘arî Nedensellik Anlayışının Yeniden Formüle Edilmesi -Şekil-Muhteva, Küllî-Cüz’i ayrımı-". Mevzu: Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Ö1: İslamî İlimler Özel Sayısı, Ekim 2023, pp. 457-488. https://doi.org/10.56720/mevzu.1347698[Reformulating the Ash'arıte Understandıng of Causality: The Distinction Between Form And Substance, Universal And Particular]
Chamberlain, Colin. "The Most Dangerous Error: Malebranche on the Experience of Causation." Philosophers' Imprint, vol. 21, 2021, pp. 1–23. ProQuest. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.
Connolly, Patrick J. "Causation and Gravitation in George Cheyne's Newtonian Natural Philosophy." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 85, 2021, pp. 145–154.
Fung, T. "Malebranche on Space, Time, and Divine Simplicity." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 94, 2023, pp. 257–280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-023-09880-3.
Helm, Paul. "Divine Causation and Analogy." Roczniki Filozoficzne, vol. 1, 2022, pp. 107–120.
Henkel, Christian. "The Young Leibniz's Tentative Acceptance of Physical Occasionalism." The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 62, 2024, pp. 486–500. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12568.
---. "The Last of His Kind? Gottfried Ploucquet’s Occasionalism and the Grounding of Sense-Perception." British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1–20.
---. "Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics." Early Science and Medicine, vol. 26, no. 4, 2021, pp. 314–340. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-02630019.
Killoren, David. "An Occasionalist Response to Korman and Locke." Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, vol. 19, no. 3, Mar. 2021, pp. 311+. Gale Academic OneFile, dx.doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v19i3.1121. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.
Koperski, Jeffrey. "Decretalism Is (Still) Not Occasionalism: Reply to Larmer." Philosophia Christi, vol. 25, 2023, pp. 117–125.
---. "God, the Laws of Nature, and Occasionalism." Religious Studies, 2023, pp. 1–14.
Larmer, Robert. "Koperski’s New (Improved?) Decretalism." Philosophia Christi, vol. 25, 2023, pp. 105–116.
Malik, Shoaib Ahmed, and Nazif Muhtaroglu. "How Much Should or Can Science Impact Theological Formulations? An Ashʿarī Perspective on Theology of Nature." European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, vol. 18, no. 2, 2022, pp. 5–35. 10.31820/ejap.18.2.9.
Miller, Timothy D. "Malebranche on General Volitions: Putting Criticisms of the General Content Interpretation to Rest." Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 61, no. 1, 2023, pp. 25–50. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hph.2023.0001.
Muhtaroglu, Nazif, and Shoaib Ahmed Malik. "Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s Decretalism: Is Occasionalism Really Avoidable?" Religious Studies, Nov. 2024, pp. 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412524000635.
Muhtaroglu, Nazif. "Akkirmânî’s Occasionalist Approach to the Neuroscientific Research on the Human Will." Religions, vol. 15, no. 9, 2024, p. 1134. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091134.
Nawar, Tamer. "The Roots of Occasionalism? Causation, Metaphysical Dependence, and Soul-Body Relations in Augustine." Vivarium, vol. 6, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1–27.
Revol, F. "The Concept of Continuous Creation Part I: History and Contemporary Use." Zygon®, vol. 55, 2020, pp. 229–250. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12582.
Sangiacomo, Andrea. "Do You Need to Know in Order to Act? The Case for a Suárezian Legacy in Early Modern Occasionalism." The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 61, no. 4, 2023, pp. 1–20.
---. "Johann Christoph Sturm's Natural Philosophy: Passive Forms, Occasionalism, and Scientific Explanations." Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 58, no. 3, 2020, pp. 493–520. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hph.2020.0049.
Shah, Syed Jawad Ali, and S. Ahmad. "Al-Ghazali and Hume on Natural Causal Necessity and Miracles." Al-Idah, vol. 39, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 71–83. doi:10.37556/al-idah.039.01.0702.
Solère, Jean-Luc. "Durand of Saint-Pourçain’s Refutation of Concurrentism." Religions, vol. 15, no. 5, May 2024. Gale Academic OneFile, dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15050558. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.
Şen, Sümer. "Doing, Allowing, and Occasionalism." Religious Studies, vol. 58, no. 3, 2022, pp. 505–521.
Taskin, Zeyneb Betul. "An Occasionalist Reading of Al‐Ashʿarī’s Theory of Kasb in Kitāb Al‐Lumaʿ." Muslim World, vol. 113, no. 4, Sept. 2023, pp. 399–415.
Taylor, Mark. "Making Sense of Malebranche’s Occasionalist Argument for Living Morally." History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 1, 2021, pp. 23–36. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48774260. Accessed 24 Feb. 2025.
Turan, Hakan. "Der Kalām-basierte Neu-Erschaffungsansatz von Basil Altaie im Vergleich zu christlich geprägten Quantum-Divine-Action-Modellen." Forum für Islamisch-Theologische Studien, vol. 3, no. 1, 2024, pp. 25–54. https://doi.org/10.5771/2748-923X-2024-1-25.
Tuttle, Jacob. "Suárez's Metaphysics of Active Powers." The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 74, no. 1, 2020, pp. 43–80. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2020.0035.

Articles Resources (2018-2020)

Anfray, Jean-Pascal. “Continuous Creation, Occasionalism, and Persistence: Leibniz on Bayle” in Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in His Reception. Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Sophie Roux. (eds.). London: Routledge: 2018, 213-242.
Bender, Sebastian. “Berkeley on Causation, Ideas and Necessary Connection” in Dominik Perler & Sebastian Bender (eds.), Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy. New York City, New York: 2020, 295-316.
Drieux, Philippe. “Louis de La Forge on Mind, Causality and Union” in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, Delphine Antoine-Mahut. (ed.s). Oxford: Oxford Un. Press, 2019; 319-331.
Gogleva, E. A. “Malebranche’s Occasionalism as Development of Cartesianism” Acta Eruditorum, 25, (2018): 102-105.
Edamura, Shohei. “Malebranche and the Doctrine of Transcreation” Kanazawa Seiryo University Bulletin of the Humanities Vol.3 No.2, (2019): 53-61.
Koca, Özgür. “The Idea of Causal Disproportionality in Said Nursi (1877-1960) and its Implications.” Journal of Islamic Philosophy. Vol. 11. (2019): 5-32.
Layman, Daniel. “Boyle’s Reductive Occasionalism” Journal of Modern Philosophy, 1 (1):2, (2019). (https://jmphil.org/articles/10.32881/jomp.6/)
Lee, Sukjae. “Berkeley on Continuous Creation: Occasionalism Contained.” In Stefan Storrie (ed.), Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018: 106-122.
Moad, Edward. “Divine Conservation, Concurrence, and Occasionalism” International Philosophical Quarterly, 58:2, (2018): 209-225.
Moad, Edward. “Occasionalism and Contemporary Analyses of Causation.”
Philosophy and Theology, Volume 30, Issue 2, (2018): 361-381.
Oda, Takaharu. “Berkeley on Voluntary Motion: A Conservationist Account” Ruch Filozoficzny, 74:4 (2018): 71-98.
Ryan, Todd. “A Cartésien Manqué: Pierre Bayle and Cartesianism” in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Edited by Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Delphine Antoine-Mahut. (ed.s). Oxford: Oxford Un. Press, 2019; 738-754.
Roux, Sophie. “A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Force in Descartes.” in Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in His Reception. Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Sophie Roux. (eds.). London: Routledge: 2018, 140-158.
Sangiacomo, Andrea. “Samuel Clarke on Agent Causation, Voluntarism, and Occasionalism.” Science in Context, 31:4, (2018): 421-456. doi:10.1017/S0269889718000340
Sangiacomo, A. “Sine qua non causation: the legacy of Malebranche’s occasionalism in Kant’s New Elucidation.” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy vol. IX. Donald Rutherford. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford Un. Press, 2019, 215-248.
Sangiacomo, A. “Geulincx and the Quod Nescis Principle, A Conservative Revolution.” in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism. Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, Delphine Antoine-Mahut. (ed.s). Oxford: Oxford Un. Press, 2019; 450-465.
Sangiacomo, A. “Johann Christoph Sturm’s Natural Philosophy: Passive Forms, Occasionalism, and Scientific Explanations,” (www.academia.edu)
Schmaltz, Tad. “Claude Clerselier and the Development of Cartesianism.” in The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism. Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz, Delphine Antoine-Mahut. (ed.s). Oxford: Oxford Un. Press, 2019; 303-318.
Shea, M., & Ragland, C. “God, evil, and occasionalism,” Religious Studies, 54:2, (2018): 265-283. doi:10.1017/S0034412517000129
Şen, Sümer. "Doing, Allowing, and Occasionalism," Religious Studies, 58:3, (2022): 505-521. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412521000056

Islamic Occasionalism

Muhtaroglu, Nazif and Ozgur Koca, “Late Ottoman Occasionalists on Modern Science” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).
Moad, Edward. “Ibn Khaldun and Occasionalism” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Koca, Ozgur. “Ibn ʿArabī and the Ashʿarites on Causality” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Yaqub, M. Aladdin. “Al-Ghazālī’s View on Causality” inOccasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “Ash’arites, Cartesians and Occasionalism” inOccasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “Al-Māturīdī’s View of Causality”, in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “Ali Sedad Bey’s (d.1900) Kavâidü’t-Taḥavvülât fî Ḥarekâti’z-Zerrât (Principles of Transformation in the Motion of Particles)” in Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy, Edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb & Sabine Schmidke, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 586-606.

Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “Al-Bāqillāni’s Cosmological Argument from Agency”Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 26/2 (2016), 271-289.

Ibrahim, Bilal.”Fahr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī, Ibn al-Haytam and Aristotelian Science: Essentialism versus Phenomenalism in Post-Classical Islamic Thought”,Oriens 41 (2013), 379–431.

Altaie, M.Basil. “Causality According to Modern Physics and Islamic Kalâm“, Kutadgubilig, 23 (2013), 207-294.

Yazicioglu, Isra. “Redefining the Miraculous: al-Ghazâlî, Ibn Rushd and Said Nursi on Qur’anic Miracle Stories”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies 13/2 (2011), 86-108.

Sabra, Abdelhamid I. “The Simple Ontology of Atomism: An Outline” Early Science and Medicine 14 (2009), 68-78.

Karbasizadeh, Amirehsan. “A Ghazalian Predicament: Epistemology and Metaphysics of Causation in the Work of Al-Ghazali” Sophia Perennis 4 (2009), 43-70.

Batak, Kemal. “Doğa Yasalarının Zorunluluğu, İlahi Fiil ve Mucize: Tanrı Dünyada Fiilde Bulunabilir mi?” Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 20/2 (2009), 23-47.

Setia, Adi. “Time, Motion, Distance, and Change in the Kalam of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: A Preliminary Survey with Special Reference to the Matalib Aliyyah,” Islam & Science, 6/1 (2008), 13-29.

Moad, Edward Omar. “A Significant Difference Between Al-Ghazali and Hume on Causation” Journal of Islamic Philosophy 3 (2008), 22-39.

Yasrebi, Yahya. “A Critique of Causality in Islamic Philosophy,” Topoi 26 (2007), 255-265.

Treiger, Alexander, “Monism and Monotheism in al-Ghazali’s Mishkat al-anwar,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 9/1 (2007), 1-27.

Moad, Edward Omar. “Al-Ghazali on Power, Causation and ‘Acquisition’” Philosophy East and West 57/1 (2007), 1-13.

Karadaş, Cağfer. “İslam Düşüncesinde Değişim ve Süreklilik” Usul İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi 8 (2007), 7-22.

Sabra, Abdelhamid I. “Kalam Atomism as an Alternative Philosophy to Hellenizing Falsafa.” in Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy, From Many to the One: Essays in Celebration of Richard M. Frank. ed. by James E. Montgomery. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006. 199-273.

McGinnis, Jon. “Occasionalism, Natural Causation and Science in al-Ghazali” in Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy, From Many to the One: Essays in Celebration of Richard M. Frank. ed. by James E. Montgomery. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006. 441-463.

Druart, Therese-Anne. “Al-Ghazālī’s Conception of the Agent in the Tahāfut and the Iqtiṣād: Are People Really Agents?” In Arabic Theology, Arabic Philosophy. From the Many to the One: Essays in Celebration of Richard M. Frank. Edited by James E. Montgomery, 425–440. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2006.

Al-Allaf, Mashhad. “Al-Ghazali on Logical Necessity, Causality and Miracles” Journal of Islamic Philosophy 2 (2006), 37-52.

Moad, Edward Omar. “Al-Ghazali’s Occasionalism and the Natures of Creatures” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 58/2 (2005), 95-101.

Marmura, Michael E. “Al-Ghazali on Bodily Resurrection and Causality in the Tahafut and the Iqtisad.” in Probing in Islamic Philosophy: Studies in the Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali and Other Major Muslim Thinkers. Binghampton: Global Academic Publishing, 2005. 273-299.

Aftab, Macksood A. “Primer on Islam and the Problem of Causation, Induction, and Skepticism,” Journal of Islamic Philosophy 1/1 (2005), 95-100.

Setia, Adi. “Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on Physics and the Nature of the Physical World: A Preliminary Survey,” Islam & Science 2 (2004), 61-80.

Rayan, Sobhi. “Al-Ghazali’s Use of the Terms “Necessity” and “Habit” in his Theory of Natural Causality” Theology and Science 2/2 (2004), 255-68.

Karadaş, Cağfer. “Atomcu Düşünceler ve Kelam Atomculuğu” Kelam Araştırmaları Dergisi 2/1 (2004), 57-72.

Kafrawi, Shalahudin. “The Notion of Necessary Being in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Philosophical Theology,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 15 (2004), 125-133.

McGinnis, Jon. “The Topology of Time: An Analysis of Medieval Islamic Accounts of Discrete and Continuous Time” The Modern Schoolmen 81 (2003), 5-25.

Alami, Ahmed. “L’aš‘arisme face à la théorie des modes.” Philosophie 77 (2003): 45–68.

Akdogan, Cemil. “Ghazali, Descartes, and Hume: The Genealogy of Some Philosophical Ideas,” Islamic Studies, 42 (2003): 487-502.

Saliba, George. “Islamic Astronomy in Context: Attacks on Astrology and the Rise of the Hay’a Tradition,” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 4 (2002), 25-46.

Lizzini, Olga. “Occasionalismo e causalità filosofica: la discussione della causalità in al-Ghazali,” Quaestio 2 (2002), 155-183.

Karadaş, Cağfer. “Kelam Atomculuğunun Kaynağı Sorunu” Marife 2/2 (2002), 81-100.

Dallal, Ahmad, “Ghazali and the Perils of Interpretation,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122 (2002), 773-787.

Dutton, Black D. “Al-Ghazali on Possibility and the Critique of Causality.” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001), 23–46.

Kukkonen, Taneli. “Plenitude, Possibility and the Limits of Reason: A Medieval Arabic Debate on the Metaphysics of Nature” Journal of the History of Ideas 60/4 (2000), 539-560.

Frank, Richard M. “The Nonexistent and the Possible in Classical Ash‘arite Teaching.”Mélanges de l’Institut Dominicain d’Études Orientales du Caire 24 (2000): 1–37.

Kukkonen, Taneli. “Possible Worlds in the Tahafut al-Falasifa: Al-Ghazali on Creation and Contingency” Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2000), 479–502.

Saliba, George. “The Ash’arites and the Science of the Stars.” In Religion and Culture in Medieval Islam. Edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 79–92

Dağ, Mehmet. “İmam-ül Harameyn El-Cüveynide Nedensellik Kuramı” On Dokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 2 (1997), 35-53.

Riker, Stephen. “Al-Ghazali on Necessary Causality in the Incoherence of the Philosophers” The Monist 79/3 (1996), 315-324.

Marmura, Michael E. “Ghazalian Causes and Intermediaries.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 115 (1995), 89–100.

.“Ghazali’s Chapter on Divine Power in the Iqtisad.” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 4/2 (1994), 279-315.

Harding, Karen. “Causality Then and Now: Al-Ghazali and Quantum Theory” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 10/2 (1993),165-177.

Abrahamov, Binyamin. “A Re-examination of al-Ash‘ari’s Theory of kasb according to Kitab al-Luma.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2 (1989). 210-221.

.“Al-Ghazali’s Theory of Causality.” Studia Islamica 67 (1988), 75-98.

Sinaceur, M. A. “Al-Ghazali et l’ironi Malebranche sur Averroes” Arabica 34/3 (1987), 287-304.

Pessagno, J. Meric. “Irada, Iktiyar, Qudra, Kasb the View of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi.” Journal of the American Oriential Society 104/1 (1984), 177-191.

Ess, Joseph van “Abu l-Hudhayl in Contact: The Genesis of an Anectode.” in Islamic Theology and Philosophy: Studies in Honor of George F. Hourani, ed. Michael E. Marmura. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.13-31.

Kogan, Barry. “The Philosophers al-Ghazali and Averroes on Necessary Connection and the Problem of the Miraculous” in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism. Edited by Parviz Morewedge. Delmar (N.Y.): Caravan Books, 1981. 113–132

Bernard, Marie. “La critique de la notion de la nature (Tab’) par le Kalam” Studia Islamica 51 (1980), 59-105.

Alon, Ilai. “Al-Ghazali on Causality” Journal of the American Oriental Society 100/4 (1980), 395-405.

Goodman, Lenn E. “Did Al-Ghazali deny Causality?” Studia Islamica 47 (1978), 83-120.

Frank, Richard M. “Notes and Remarks on the taba’i‘ in the teaching of al-Maturidi” in Melanges d’islamologie a la memoire d’Armand Abel. Ed. P. Salmon. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. 137-149.

Courtenay, William. “The Critique of Natural Causality in the Mutakallimun and Nominalism.” The Harvard Theological Review 66/1 (1973). 77-94.

Frank, Richard M. “Al- Ash‘ari’s Conception of Nature and Role of Speculative Reasoning in Theology” Proceedings of the VIth Congress of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Stockholm, 1972. 136-154.

Goodman, Lenn E.“Al-Ghazali’s Argument from Creation II.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 2/2 (Jan, 1971), 168-188.

Goodman, Lenn E. “Al-Ghazali’s Argument from Creation I.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 2/1 (Jan, 1971), 67-85.

Frank, Richard M. “The Structure of Created Causality according to al-Ash‘ari, An Analysis of Kitab al-Luma pars. 82-164.” Studia Islamica 25 (1966), 13-75.

Griffel, Frank. “Al-Ghazali’s Appropriation of Ibn Sina’s Views on Causality and the Development of the Sciences in Islam,” in Uluslararasi Ibn Sina Sempozyumu, II, 105-116.

MacDonald, D. B. “Continuous Re-Creation and Atomic Time in Muslim Scholastic Theology” Isis 9 (1927), 326-344.

Marmura, Michael E. “Ghazali and Demonstrative Science.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 3/2 (October, 1965), 183-204.

Obermann, Julian. “Das Problem der Kausalität bei den Arabern.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 29 (1915), 323–50 and 30 (1918), 37–90
Opwis, Felicitas. “Attributing Causality to God’s Law: The Solution of Fakhr ad-Dîn ar-Râzî,” Islamic Philosophy 397-418.

Occasionalism Debates In Medieval Philosophy

Ablondi, Fred and J. Aaron Simmons. “Malebranche and Suarez on the Power of Secondary Causes: A Contemporary Consideration” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).
Frost, Gloria. “Peter Olivi’s Rejection of God’s Concurrence with Created Causes,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22:4 (2014), 655-679.

Mancha, Louis A. “Aquinas, Suarez, and Malebranche on Instrumental Causation and Premotion”, International Philosophical Quarterly 52/3 (2012), 335-353.

Ablondi, Fred and J. Aaron Simmons. “Gabriel Biel and Occasionalism: Overcoming an Apparent Tension,History of Philosophy 28/2 (2011), 159-173.
Scribano, Emanuela. “Quod nescis quomodo fiat, id non facis” Occasionalism against Descartes?”, Rinascimento 51 (2011), 63-86.

Cartesian Occasionalism

Platt, Andrew. “Cordemoy and the Motives for Cartesian Occasionalism” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).
Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “Ash’arites, Cartesians and Occasionalism” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Ablondi, Fred and J. Aaron Simmons. “Malebranche and Suarez on the Power of Secondary Causes: A Contemporary Consideration” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Sangiacomo, Andrea. ”Louis de La Forge and the ‘Non-Transfer Argument’ for Occasionalism,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, (2014), 60-80.

Sangiacomo, Andrea. “Defect of Knowledge and Practice of Virtue in Geulincx’s Occasionalism,” Studia Leibnitiana,46/1 (2014), 46-63.

Chen, Dorothy. “Leibniz: Eliminating Cartesian Mind-Body Interactionism and Occasionalism,” British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy, 5:1 (2012), 23-38.

Mancha, Louis A. “Aquinas, Suarez, and Malebranche on Instrumental Causation and Premotion,” International Philosophical Quarterly, 52/3 (2012), 335-353.

Scribano, Emanuela. “Quod nescis quomodo fiat, id non facis” Occasionalism against Descartes?”, Rinascimento 51 (2011), 63-86.

Wahl, Russell. ”Occasionalism, Laws and General Will”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19/2 (2011), 219-240.

Fisher, A. R. J. “Causal and Logical Necessity in Malebranche’s Occasionalism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41/4 (2011), 523-546.

Platt, Andrew. “Divine Activity and Motive Power in Descartes’s Physics”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 19/4 (2011), 623-646.

Slowik, Edward. “Descartes’ Physics.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2009 Edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta. URL =http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2009/entries/descartes-physics

Greenberg, Sean. “’Things that undermine each other’: Occasionalism, Freedom, and Attention in Malebranche.” in Daniel Garber & Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Vol. 4. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Schmaltz, Tad. “Occasionalism and Mechanism: Fontenelle’s Objection to Malebranche” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16/2 (2008), 293-313.

Della Rocca, M. “Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes.” in A Companion to Descartes, J. Broughton and J. Carriero, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 235-250

Cunning, David. “Malebranche and Occasional Causes” Philosophy Compass, 3/3 (2008), 471-490.

Ott, Walter. “Causation, Intentionality and the Case for Occasionalism.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 90/2 (2008), 165-187.

Lee, Sukjae. “Necessary Connections and Continuous Creation: Malebranche’s Two Arguments for Occasionalism.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46/4 (2008), 539-566.

Ablondi, Fred. “Fançois Lamy, Occasionalism and the Mind-Body Problem.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46/4 (2008), 619-629.

Lee, Sukjae. “Passive Natures and No Representations: Malebranche’s Two ‘Local’ Arguments for Occasionalism” Harvard Review of Philosophy 25 (2007), 72-91.

Jalobenau, Dana. “Bodies, Laws and The Problem of Secondary Causation in Descartes’ Natural Philosophy” Studia Universitatis Babes-Boylai-Universelia 1 (2006), 129-155.

Peppers-Bates, Susan. “Does Malebranche need Efficacious Ideas? The Cognitive Faculties, The Ontological Status of Ideas and Human Attention” Journal of the History of Philosophy 43/1 (2005), 83-105.

Nadler, Steven. “Cordemoy and Occasionalism” Journal of the History of Philosophy 43/1 (2005), 37-54.

Downing, Lisa. “Occasionalism and Strict Mechanism: Malebranche, Berkeley, Fontenelle.” in Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics, C. Mercer and E. O’Neill, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 206-230

Pessin, Andrew. “Descartes’s Nomic Concurrentism: Finite Causation and Divine Concurrence” Journal of the History of Philosophy 41/1 (2003), 25-49.

Detlefsen, Karen. “Supernaturalism, Occasionalism and Preformation in Malebranche” Perspectives on Science 11/4 (2003), 443-483.

Jolley, Nicholas. “Occasionalism and Efficacious Laws in Malebranche” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 26/1 (2002), 245-257.

Bardout, Jean-Christophe. “Occasionalism: La Forge, Cordemoy, Geulinxc” in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, ed. by Steven Nadler, New York: Blackwell, 2002. 140-152.

Pessin, Andrew .“Malebranche’s Distinction Between General and Particular Volitions” Journal of the History of Philosophy39/1 (2001), 77-99.

Garber, Daniel. “Descartes and Occasionalism.” in Descartes Embodied. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 203-220.

Clarke, Desmond (2000). “Causal powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche.” in John Schuster, Stephen Gaukroger & John Sutton (eds.), Natural Philosophy.New York: Routledge, 2000, 131-48.

Scott, David. “Occasionalism Occasional Causation in Descartes’ Philosophy” Journal of the History of Philosophy 38/4 (2000), 503-528.

Pessin, Andrew. “Does Continuous Creation Entail Occasionalism? Malebranche and (Descartes)” Canadian Journal of Philosophy30/3 (2000), 413-440.

. “Malebranche’s Natural Theology and Incompleteness of God’s Volitions.” Religious Studies 36 (2000), 47-63.

Pessin, Andrew. “Malebranche Doctrine of Freedom/Consent and the Incompleteness of God’s Volitions” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8/1 (2000), 21-53.

Nadler, Steven. “Malebranche on Causation.” in Cambridge Companion to Malebranche. Cambridge: Un. of Cambridge Press, 2000. 112-138

Kremer, Elmar J. “Malebranche on Human Freedom.” in Cambridge Companion to Malebranche. ed. Steven Nadler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 190-219

Hattab, Helen. “The Problem of Secondary Causation in Descartes: A Reply to Des Chene.” Perspectives on Science 8/2 (2000), 93-118.

Slowik, Edward. “Descartes’ Quantity of Motion: ‘New Age’ Holism meets the Cartesian Conservation Principle.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80/2 (1999), 178-202.

Anstey, Peter. “Boyle on Occasionalism: An Unexamined Source” Journal of the History of Ideas 61/1 (1999), 57-81.

Nadler, Steven. “Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism: Continuos Creation and the Activity of Soul” Journal of the History of Philosophy 36/2 (1998), 215-231.

Hatfield, Gary C. “Force (God) in Descartes’ Physics.” in Descartes. ed. John Cottingham. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 281-310.

Scott, David. “Malebranche on the Soul’s Power” Studia Leibnitiana 28/1 (1996), 37-57.

Nadler, Steven. “Malebranche’s Occasionalism: A Reply to Clarke” Journal of the History of Philosophy 33/3 (1995), 505-508.

Clatterbaugh, Kenneth. “Cartesian Causality, Explanation, and Divine Concurrence” History of Philosophy Quarterly 12/2 (1995), 195-207.

Clarke, Desmond M. “Malebranche and Occasionalism: A Reply to Steven Nadler” Journal of the History of Philosophy 33/3 (1995), 499-504.

Schmaltz, Tad. “Human Freedom, and Divine Creation in Malebranche, Descartes and Cartesians” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2/2 (1994), 3-50.

Nadler, Steven. “Dualism and Occasionalism: Arnauld and the Development of Occasionalism” Revue Internationale de Philosophie vol. 48 (1994), 421-439.

Watson, Richard. “Malebranche, Models, and Causation” in Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony, S. Nadler, ed. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. 75-93

Rutherford, Donald P. “Natures, Laws, and Miracles: The Roots of Leibniz’s Critique of Occasionalism”in Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony, S. Nadler, ed. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. 135-158

Radner, Daisie. “Occasionalism” in Routledge History of Philosophy IV: Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism. ed. J. H. R. Parkinson. New York: Routledge, 1993. 349-384

Nadler Steven. “Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche” Journal of the History of Philosophy 31/1 (1993), 31-47.

Lennon, M. Thomas. “Mechanism as a Silly Mouse: Bayle’s Defense of Occasionalism against the Preestablished Harmony” in Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony, S. Nadler, ed. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. 179-196

Sleigh, R. “Leibniz on Malebranche on Causality” in Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy, J.A. Cover and M. Kulstad, eds. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1990. 161-194

Jolley, Nicholas.“Berkeley and Malebranche on Causality and Volition.” in Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy, J.A. Cover and M. Kulstad, eds. Indianapolis: Hackett. 1990. 227-243

Garber, Daniel. “How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism” Journal of Philosophy 84/10 (1987), 567-580.

Balz, Albert. “Clauberg and the Development of Occasionalism” Philosophical Revie 43/1 (1934), 48-64.
Gueroult, M. “Metaphysique et physique de la force chez Descartes et chez Malebranche” Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale 59/1 (1954), 1-37.

Occasionalism and British Empiricism

Hight, Marc A. “Berkeley’s Strange Semi-Occasionalist Mystery: Finite Minds as Causes” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).
Connolly Patrick J. “Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 14/1 (2016), 125-135.

Jordan, Jason. “Volitional Efficacy and the Paralytic’s Arm: Hume and the Discursus of Occasionalism,”Intellectual History Review, 25:4 (2015), 401-412.

Ablondi, Fred. “Newtonian vs. Newtonian: Baxter and MacLaurin on the Inactivity of Matter,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy,11/1 (2013), 15-23.

Daniel, Stephen H. “Edwards’ Occasionalism” in Don Schweitzer (ed.),, Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary: Essays in Honor of Sang Hyun Lee.(New York: Peter Lang, 2010),1-14.

Kail, Peter. “Hume, Malebranche and ‘Rationalism’” Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy 83 (2008), 311-332.

Mander, William J. The Philosophy of John Norris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

McDonough, Jeffrey. “Berkeley, Human Agency and Divine Concurrentism” Journal of the History of Philosophy 46/4 (2008), 567-590.

Roberts, J. Russell. A Metaphysics for the Mob: The Philosophy of George Berkeley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Kail, Peter. “On Hume’s Appropriation of Malebranche: Causation and Self,” European Journal of Philosophy 15 (2007): 1-26

Bell, Martin. “Hume and Causal Power: The Influences of Malebranche and Newton” British Journal for History of Philosophy 5/1 (1997), 67-86.

Nadler, Steven. “No Necessary Connection: The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of Hume” The Monist 79/3 (1996), 448-466.

Sleigh, Robert. “Leibniz on Malebranche on Causality,” in Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Jan Cover and Mark Kulstad ed.s. Indianapolis: Hackett. 1990. 161–93

Jolley, Nicholas. “Berkeley and Malebranche on Causality and Volition.” in Central Themes in Early Modern Philosophy, J.A. Cover and M. Kulstad, eds. Indianapolis: Hackett. 1990. 227-243

Lennon, Thomas. Veritas Filia Temporis: Hume on Time and Causation” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2/3 (Jul., 1985), 275-290.

McKim, Robert. “Berkeley on Human Agency,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2 (1984), 181–94.

McCracken, Charles. Malebranche and British Philosophy New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Pitcher, George. “Berkeley on the Mind’s Activity,” American Philosophical Quarterly 18 (1981), 221–27.

A. A. Luce, Berkeley And Malebranche: A Study In The Origins Of Berkeley’s Thought. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.
Carll Whitman Doxsee, “Hume’s Relation to Malebranche,” The Philosophical Review 25 (1916): 692-710.

Contemporary Discussions on Occasionalism

Walter J. Schultz and Lisanne D’Andrea-Winslow. “Divine Compositionalism as Occasionalism” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).
Ott, Walter. “Occasionalism and the Powers of Minds” in Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions,ed. Nazif Muhtaroglu, (Dubai:Kalam Research & Media, 2017).

Plantinga, Alvin. “Laws, Cause and Occasionalism” inReason and Faith:Themes from Richard Swinburne, 126–144. Edited by Michael Bergman and Jeffrey E. Brower. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016

Schultz, Walter J. ”Truth and Truth-makers,” Philosophia Christi 17/1 (2015), 7-30.

Lim, Daniel. “Occasionalism and non-reductive physicalism: Another Look at the Continous Creation Argument,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 75/ 1 (2014), 39-57.

Schultz, Walter J. “The Actual World From Platonism to Plans,”Philosophia Christi, 16/1 (2014), 81-100.

Schultz, Walter J. & D’Andrea-Winslow, Lisanne. “Divine Compositionalism: A Form of Occasionalism or a Preferable Alternative View of Divine Action?” Theology and Science, (2014), 216-235.

Schultz, Walter J. & Lisanne D’Andrea-Winslow. “The Structures of the Actual World,” Proceedings of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences,(2013) 168-186.

Miller, Timothy. “Continuous Creation and Secondary Causation: the Threat of Occasionalism,” Religious Studies 47/1 (2011), 3-22.

Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “An Occasionalist Defense of Free Will.” in Classic Issues in Islamic Philosophy and Theology Today. eds. A-T. Tymieniecka, and N. Muhtaroglu. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. 45-62

Harman, Graham. “Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos: A New Theory of Causation”, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 6/1 (2010), 1-17

Muhtaroglu, Nazif. “An Occasionalist Approach to Miracles”, Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies 22 (2009). 73-91.

Schultz, Walter J. “Dispositions, Capacities and Powers: A Christian Analysis,”Philosophia Christi,11/2 (2009), 321-338.

Paterson, Sarah. “Epiphenomenalism and Occasionalism: Problems of Mental Causation, Old and New” History of Philosophy Quarterly 22/3 (2005), 239-257.

Patterson, Sarah (2005). Epiphenomenalism and Occasionalism: Problems of Mental Causation, Old and New. Old and New. History of Philosophy Quarterly 22 (3): 239-257.

Rogers, Katherin A. “What’s wrong with Occasionalism?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 75 (Summer 2001). 345-369.

Okrent, Nicholas. “A Note on Leibniz’s Supposed Flirtation with Occasionalism in the 1669 Letter to Thomasius,”Auslegung: a journal of philosophy, Volume 23, Number 2 (Summer, 2000), 143-152.

Vallicella, William F. “God, Causation and Occasionalism.” Religious Studies 35/1 (1999), 3-18.

. “Concurrentism or Occasionalism?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70/3 (1996), 339-359.

Bradshaw, David. “‘Existing is the Action of God’: The Philosophical Theology of David Braine” The Thomist 60/3 (1996), 379-416.

Kvanvig, Jonathan L. and McCann, Hugh J. “The Occasionalist Proselytizer: A Modified Catechism.” Philosophical Perspectives 5 (1991). 587-615.

Freddoso, Alfred. “Medieval Aristotelianism and the Case against Secondary Causation in Nature.” in Divine and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism. ed. T.V. Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988. 74-118

Braine, David. The Reality of Time and the Existence of God. London: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1988.
Quinn, Philip L. “Divine Conservation, Secondary Causes, and Occasionalism” in The Existence and Nature of God, ed. Alfred Freddoso. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1973. 50-73