The origin and status of laws of nature
The Aristotelian background
The ontology of relations
Manifest and occult qualities
The Cartesian predicament
The rejection of Aristotelianism
The nude wax : Cartesian ontology
The concurrentist reading
The argument from laws of nature
Thoroughgoing occasionalism
The problem of mental causation
The dialectic of occasionalism
Malebranche and the cognitive model of causation
The argument from nonsense
The argument from elimination
The divine concursus argument
The 'no necessary connection' argument
Laws and divine volitions
The content of divine volitions
The problem of efficacious laws
Causation and explanation
Régis against the occasionalists
Boyle and the concurrentists
Locke on powers : the geometrical model
Against the positivist reading
The argument from nonsense
Against the cognitive and geometrical models
The practicality requirement
The definition of causation
Subjectivism or projectivism?
