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Are new campaign finance regulations an attack on free speech?(Up front: news and opinion from independent minds)
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May 1, 2004|
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Recently there has been an uproar from liberal nonprofit organizations over possible new Federal Election Committee (FEC) rules that would regulate some organizations' efforts to air anti-Bush ads during this election year. The regulations are aimed at independent political committees--section 527 groups.
Republicans see this as a chance to shut off one source of Democratic campaign funds and thereby improve Republican chances for victory in November--and Democrats are aggressively challenging the proposed rules for the same reason.
Those in the campaign ...
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Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...of the essays discuss the development of occasionalism and preestablished harmony in major seventeenth...implies that Descartes held some form of occasionalism. Descartes's occasionalism, however, appears not to extend beyond...
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Leibniz on Concurrence and Efficient Causation
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy
; ...different answers to this question: occasionalism, mere conservationism, and concurrentism...Malebranche, among others, defended occasionalism, the view that God is the only causal...words, he is not an occasionalist. Occasionalism maintains that God must act for any...
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The development of physical influx in early eighteenth-century Germany: Gottsched, Knutzen, and Crusius. (Johann Christoph Gottsched, Martin Knutzen, August Friedrich Crusius)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...other. Thus, Malebranche develops Occasionalism, which solves the problem by denying...opposes to Pre-established Harmony and occasionalism and dubs "influxus physicus" or...doctrines of Pre-established Harmony, Occasionalism, and Physical Influx.(4) Physical...
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Journal of the History of Philosophy: Vol. 46, No. 4, October 2008.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...Malebranche's Two Arguments for Occasionalism, SUKJAE LEE Malebranche presents two major arguments for occasionalism: the "no necessary connection...skeptical naturalism. Francois Lamy, Occasionalism, and the Mind-Body Problem...
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Al-Ghazali on power, causation, and 'acquisition'.(Abu-hamid al-Ghazali)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...Western tradition has coined the term 'occasionalism' for this doctrine, according to...earliest articulation of the idea behind occasionalism might be the one that emerged in the...al-Ghazali did, in fact, espouse occasionalism. L. E. Goodman and Ilai Alon, for...
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American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 79, No. 2, Spring 2005.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(metaphysical papers)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...teachings of the Church. Malebranche's Occasionalism: A Strategic Reinterpretation, ALAN...thesis of Malebranche's doctrine of occasionalism is that God is the sole true cause...the gap between T and full-fledged occasionalism. Specifically, it is needed to rule...
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Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...a brief interlude on causation and occasionalism (chapter 7), focus on thinking substance...Early in chapter 7 on "Causation, Occasionalism, and Force," Woolhouse examines...Descartes a genuinely perplexing attenuated occasionalism, crying out for explanation. A measure...
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COLUMN: 'Theory' of gravity skewed
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; ...another physical theory that exists called "occasionalism." Occasionalism states that when a rock hits a window, God...occasion to break the window. Just like gravity, occasionalism is a theory: There is no way to definitely...
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Journal of the Hitory of Philosophy: Vol. 43, No. 1, January 2005.(Philosophical Abstract)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...to his own principles. Cordemoy and Occasionalism, STEVEN NADLER This paper offers a...Cordemoy's commitment to the doctrine of occasionalism. It is argued that while Cordemoy...grounds for assessing Cordemoy's occasionalism (especially with respect to the mind...
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Gerauld de Cordemoy; atomist, occasionalist, Cartesian.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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; ...the notion that Cartesian metaphysics led inevitably to occasionalism. Along with providing an introduction to Cordemoy's arguments...century thought and breaks down his attachment to atomism, occasionalism and Cartesianism in turn, explaining Cordemoy's approach...
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