Louis de La Forge (; 24 November 1632 – 1666) was a French physician and philosopher who in his Tractatus de mente humana (Traité de l'esprit de l'homme, 1664; in English: "Treatise on the Human Mind") expounded the 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 Jacques Isolle, « Un Disciple de Descartes : Louis de La Forge », 1971, XVII siècle n° 92, pp. 98–131
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