KnowraNicolas MalebrancheLinked fromLinked fromThe 8 pages that link to Nicolas Malebranche, each with the reason it gives.All 8Broader topic 3Related 5René DescartesBroader topic: His theory offered a distinctive response to the causal problem raised by Descartes’s mind–body distinction.RationalismBroader topic: His account gives intellectual knowledge a divine source rather than a sensory one.Mind–body problemRelated: Occasionalism addresses the interaction problem by denying direct mental-to-physical causation.OccasionalismBroader topic: His writings made occasionalism a central early modern theory of causation.George BerkeleyRelated: Berkeley’s account of perception and divine activity responds to issues raised by Malebranche.Nicolas Boileau-DespréauxRelated: Boileau’s friendship with Malebranche linked literary judgment to contemporary philosophical debate.PreformationismRelated: Malebranche gave ovist preformationism a prominent philosophical defense.Guillaume de l’HôpitalRelated: L’Hôpital encountered mathematical ideas through the intellectual networks around Malebranche.