Sukjae Lee

In this dissertation, I will focus on the channel entry[歸經] and the effect and the treatment [效能主治] in oriental medicine texts from ancient to modern times in order to classify the medicines of the kidney. Medicines that effected the Kidney through working on any other viscera were as follows:...

Against Winkler’s interpretation that Berkeley endorses the “conservation is but continuous creation thesis” across-the-board, this paper argues that Berkeley restricts his endorsement of the continuous creation thesis to the domain of physical bodies. Such a restricted application of the continuous creation thesis, the paper goes on to argue, reveals the distinctive nature of Berkeley’s occasionalism, an occasionalism “contained.” That is, his occasionalism with regard to physical bodies is mor

Malebranche is well‐known for his occasionalism, according to which creaturesall lack genuine causal powers and God is the unique, genuine cause. Thisoccasionalism is in part motivated by Malebranche’s views about divineomnipotence, which were thought to be improperly threatened by the positingof essential causal powers in created substances. From the occasionalist’sperspective, creaturely causal essences ought not present any constraints as towhat God can will. While not as well‐known as his oc

Leibniz, in On Nature Itself, famously charges that occasionalismmakes “God the very nature of things, while created things disappear intomere modifications of the one divine substance” (G IV 508-9/AG 165). Leibniz pivots this ‘Spinozism’ charge on the key claim that Malebrancheand like-minded occasionalists fail to appreciate that substantiality itself istightly connected to there being genuine causal forces internal to the entitiesin question. What is not clear is why Malebranche would be subj

Purpose: Phocomelia is an extremely rare congenital anomaly of the upper extremity. There have been no clinical reports about phocomlia in Korea except for five birth reports. We present here the clinical features, classifications and surgical treatments of our phocomelia cases. Materials and Methods: From January 1993 to August 2007, seven patients were diagnosed as having phocomelia in 9 upper extremities at our clinic. Surgical treatments were performed for five patients on their hand anomali