The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume

by Galen Strawson

Book Overview

It is widely supposed that David Hume invented and espoused the "regularity" theory of causation, holding that causal relations are nothing but a matter of one type of thing being regularly followed by another. It is also widely supposed that he was not only right about this, but that it was one of his greatest contributions to philosophy. Strawson here argues that the regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and that Hume never adopted it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198240384
• ISBN13: 9780198240389
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"