On Causation: With Special Reference to Hume

Abstract

Hume was correct in his critique of causation as understood by the New Science, a critique deadly to both causal and scientific realism. Getting beyond Hume's critique of causation requires that we call into question the New Science's understanding of causation and replace it with a Neo-Aristotelian account of causal processes. In this paper, I try to point the way to such an account.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

My notes

Similar books and articles

Sceptical doubts concerning Hume's causal realism.Martin Bell - 2000 - In Rupert J. Read & Kenneth A. Richman (eds.), The New Hume Debate. New York: Routledge. pp. 122--37.
Hume, Causation and Two Arguments Concerning God.Jason Megill - 2014 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (2):169--177.
Quasi-Realism and Inductive Scepticism in Hume’s Theory of Causation.Dominic K. Dimech - 2019 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (4):637-650.
Hume, causal realism, and causal science.Peter Millican - 2009 - Mind 118 (471):647-712.
Causation.Wesley C. Salmon - 2002 - In Richard M. Gale (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 19–42.
Causal Powers, Hume’s Early German Critics, and Kant’s Response to Hume.Brian A. Chance - 2013 - Kant Studien 104 (2):213-236.
Discrete and Continuous Causation.Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons - 2017 - In Robert C. Koons & Timothy Pickavance (eds.), The atlas of reality: a comprehensive guide to metaphysics. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 613–623.
Probabilistic causation and causal processes: A critique of Lewis.Peter Menzies - 1989 - Philosophy of Science 56 (4):642-663.
Hume on Thick and Thin Causation.Alexander Bozzo - 2018 - Dissertation, Marquette University
Hume's 'Two Definitions' of Causation and the Ontology of 'Double Existence' (revised) with an Appendix 2021.Paul Russell - 2021 - In Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy: Selected Essays. New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 3-31.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-09-07

Downloads
816 (#30,315)

6 months
136 (#38,403)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Steven Merle Duncan
Bellevue Community College

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references