Dissertations about Occasionalism

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• Attar, Muhammad F. Avicenna and Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī on the Cosmic System: The Rule of One Efficient Causality, and Celestial Mediation. McGill University, 2023.

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• Jarada, Hadel M. Determinism and Freedom in Islamic Theology: The Ḥanafī-Māturīdī Tradition, 900-1350. Harvard University, 2021.

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• Lazzari, Edmund M. Miracles and Laws of Science: Insights for Contemporary Dialogue on Divine Action from Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas. Marquette University, 2023.

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• Taskin, Zeyneb Betul. Occasionalism, Free Will, and the Problem of Evil. Indiana University, 2023.

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• Westberg, Nicholas Theo. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Causality in the Material World. Boston College, 2023.

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• Gholamnejad, Melissa Kalaee. Louis de la Forge on Mind-Body Interaction and the Case against Occasionalism. The Claremont Graduate University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019.
   

• Michaela Tiller, Malebranche and Miracles. University of North Carolina, 2016

  • Supervisor: Alan Nelson

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• Ozgur Koca, Said Nursi’s Synthesis of Ash’arite Occasionalism and Ibn ‘Arabȋ’s Metaphysical Cosmology: “Diagonal Occasionalism,” Modern Science, and Free Will. Claremont Graduate University, 2013.

  • Supervisor: Philip Clayton

 

• Nazif Muhtaroglu, Islamic and Cartesian Roots of Occasionalism. University of Kentucky, 2012.

  • Supervisor: Brandon Look

 

• Bulğen, Mehmet, Klasik Dönem Kelam Atomculuğunun Günümüz Kozmolojisi tarafından Değerlendirilmesi. [The Evaluation of the Kalam Atomism in the Classical Period in terms of Contemporary Cosmology]. Marmara University, Kalam Division (Istanbul), 2012.

  • Supervisor: İlyas Çelebi

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• Jason M. Jordan, Causal Skepticism and the Destruction of Antiquity. Graduate School of the University of Oregon, 2011.

  • Supervisor: Naomi Zack

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• Andrew Russell Platt, The Rise of Cartesian Occasionalism. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010.

  • Supervisor: Eileen O’Neill

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• Daniel Wagner, A Thomistic Critique of Occasionalism from Natural Causality, Divine Omnipotence and the Psychology of Human Agency. Gonzaga University, 2010.

  • Supervisor: Michael W. Tkacz

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• Julie Walsh, Intentional Volitions, Malebranche and Locke on Human Freedom. University of Western Ontario, 2010.

  • Supervisor:Thomas M.Lennon

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• Şekerci, Ahmet Erhan, Gazzâlî ve David Hume’da Nedensellik [The concept of causality in Gazali and David Hume]. Marmara University, 2009.

  • Supervisor: Mustafa Çağrıcı

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• Umeyye Yazicioglu, Miracle Stories and Causality in the Qur’anic tradition: A philosophical and theological inquiry. University of Virgina, 2008.

  • Supervisor: Peter Ochs

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• Muharrem Şahiner, Malebranche’da Aranedencilik, Istanbul University, 2006.

  • Supervisor: Ömer Mahir Alper

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• Bradley W. Pace, Nature and Law in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, 2006.

  • Supervisor: Patric Masher

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• Edward Omar Moad, Prolegomena to an Occasionalist Metaphysics. . University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004.

  • Supervisor: Jonathan Kvanvig

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• Sean Greenberg, Hidden Folds of Freedom:Freedom and the Will in Leibniz and Malebranche Harvard University, 2000.

  • Supervisor: Alison Simmons

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• Susan Michelle Peppers, Reconciling Malebranche’s Occasionalist Metaphysics and Human Freedom. University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

  • Supervisor: Lisa Downing

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• Robert Lawrence Higdon, The Philosophical Significance of Leibniz’s Response to Occasionalism. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999.

  • Supervisor: Floy Andrews-Doull

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• Joan Angles Roig, L’occasionalisme en Malebranche. Universitat de Barcelona, 1994.

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• Andrew Gerard Black, Occasionalism in the Malebranche-Arnauld Debate. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1992.

  • Supervisor: Robert J. Sleigh

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• Ana Maria Zurita Lopez, Causalidad y legalidad. La doctrina ocasionalista de Malebranche. Universitat de Navarra, 1990.

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• Carol Lucille Bargeron, The Concept of Causality in Abu Hamid Muhamad al-Ghazali’s Tahafut al-Falasifah. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978.

  • Supervisor: William J. Courtney

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• James Fredrick Naify, Arabic and European Occasionalism: A Comparison of Al-Ghazali’s Occasionalism and its Critique by Averroes with Malebranche’s Occasionalism and its Criticisms in the Cartesian Tradition. University of California San Diego, 1975.

  • Supervisor: Richard Popkin

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• Richard John Fafara, The Notion of Idee Efficace in the Philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche. University of Toronto, 1975.

  • Supervisor: R. F. McRae

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• Brain Cooney, The Development of Cartesian Metaphysics. University of McGill, 1972.