This doctrine is now known in Western philosophy as occasionalism.

He is famous for defending the theory of occasionalism using logic.

In general, occasionalism is the view that there are no efficient causes in the full sense other than God.

Occasionalism and the vision in God seem to make the real existence of material substance redundant.

Al-Ghazali also used the theory to support his theory of occasionalism.

He was also a defender of Cartesianism against occasionalism.

This creates a conceptual puzzle about how the two interact (which has received some strange answers, such as occasionalism).

The search for a definitive Islamic philosophy separate from Occasionalism can be seen in what is left of his work.

What he proposed can be seen as a modification of occasionalism developed by latter-day Cartesians.

The occasionalism of Geulincx is ethical rather than cosmological in its inception.

Even occasionalism is no more improbable than that the material should have a manifestly immaterial function.

Occasionalism is a philosophical theory about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events.

Malebranche is best known for his doctrines of Vision in God and Occasionalism.

With regard to this second half of Malebranche's occasionalism, Hume wrote:

It may refer to Occasionalism.

Hence the doctrine is named occasionalism.

On the other hand he considered Leibniz's solution to the mind-body problem to be a less powerful variation on occasionalism.

The second part of Geulincx's philosophy is connected with Occasionalism as the effect with the cause.

But he was influenced by Malebranche's occasionalism, even though he excluded the activity of created minds from its domain.

Immaterial souls exist, but exert no causal influence, free or determined (epiphenomenalism, occasionalism)

"Concurrentism or occasionalism?

In stark contrast, the philosophy of Occasionalism is an exceptionally devout insistence on God being the primary and sole cause of everything.

Among the more influential theories within philosophy are Aristotle's Four causes and Al-Ghazali's occasionalism.

The new way was towards an Islamic philosophy based on cause-and-effect that was determined by God or intermediate angels, a theory now known as occasionalism.

The Incoherence of the Philosophers is famous for proposing and defending the Asharite theory of occasionalism.