French Oratorian philosopher who developed occasionalism — all apparent causation between finite things is mediated by God — as a response to Cartesian mind-body interaction.
Occasionalism: finite minds and bodies cannot causally interact; when we will a movement, God causes the corresponding bodily motion — God is the only true cause. We see all things in God: human knowledge consists in perceiving ideas in the divine mind.
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