God, the laws of nature, and occasionalism

IF 0.5 2区哲学 0 RELIGION

RELIGIOUS STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI:10.1017/s0034412523000835

Jeffrey Koperski

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Abstract

Abstract Occasionalism is often seen as a peculiarity of early modern philosophy. The idea that God is the sole source of efficient causation in the world strikes many as at best implausible. It was, however, a natural inference based on the seventeenth-century view that the laws of nature are simply God's decrees. The question here is whether such a view and its more recent descendants entail occasionalism. I argue that they do not, but showing why involves a new take on what exactly the laws of nature do.

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上帝，自然法则和偶然性

偶然性常被看作是早期现代哲学的一个特点。上帝是世界上有效因果关系的唯一来源的观点，在许多人看来充其量是难以置信的。然而，这是一种基于17世纪观点的自然推论，即自然法则只是上帝的法令。这里的问题是，这种观点及其最近的衍生观点是否包含了偶然性。我认为它们不存在，但要解释其中的原因，需要对自然法则的作用进行全新的理解。

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RELIGIOUS STUDIES RELIGION-

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1.20

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期刊介绍： Religious Studies is an international journal devoted to the problems of the philosophy of religion as they arise out of classical and contemporary discussions and from varied religious traditions. More than 25 articles are published each year, and the journal also contains an extensive book review section.