Hume on Causation

by Helen Beebee

Book Overview

Hume is traditionally credited with inventing the 'regularity theory' of causation, according to which the causal relation between two events consists merely in the fact that events of the first kind are always followed by events of the second kind.

Hume is also traditionally credited with two other, hugely influential positions: the view that the world appears to us as a world of unconnected events, and inductive scepticism: the view that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415243394
• ISBN13: 9780415243391
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"