biography
| name: |
Malebranche, Nicolas
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pronunciation:
[malbrãsh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1638–1715)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Paris, France. He joined the Catholic Oratorians in 1660, and studied theology until Descartes' works drew him to philosophy. His major work is De la recherche de la vérité (1674, Search after Truth), which defends many of Descartes' views, but explains all causal interaction between mind and body by a theory of divine intervention known as occasionalism. |
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