occasionalism

[ uh-key-zhuh-nl-iz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Philosophy.

a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions.

occasionalism

/ əˈkeɪʒənəˌlɪzəm /

the post-Cartesian theory that the seeming interconnection of mind and matter is effected by God

First recorded in 1835–45; occasional + -ism

This principle was prominent in the philosophy of occasionalism, and is still by no means extinct.

Occasionalism appeared to introduce God that he might make physical matter do what it had no natural tendency to do, viz.

Occasionalism, or the doctrine that God is the immediate cause of all men's actions.

Many, alarmed at the consequences which occasionalism would seem to involve, have embraced an opposite scheme.

It results from the occasionalism attributed by Dewey to the thinking process.

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