Louis de La Forge

Louis de La Forge (1632–1666) was a French philosopher who in his Tractatus de mente humana (Traité de l'esprit de l'homme, 1664; in English, "Treatise on the Human Mind") expounded a doctrine of occasionalism. He was born in La Flèche and died in Saumur. He was a friend of Descartes, and one of the most able interpreters of Cartesianism.

Bibliography

• 1664, Traité de l’esprit de l’homme et de ses facultés ou fonctions et de son union avec le corps, Amsterdam.
  • ed. Abraham Wolfgang, Hildesheim ; New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 1984 ISBN 978-3-487-07476-4
• Jacques Isolle, « Un Disciple de Descartes : Louis de La Forge », 1971, XVII siècle n° 92, pp. 98-131

External links

• Louis de La Forge entry by Desmond Clarke in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy