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The secret connexion : causation, realism, and David Hume /
In this revised edition of 'The Secret Connexion', Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. He argues that Hume believes in causal influence, but insists that we cannot know its nature. The regularity theory of causation...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""The Secret Connexion Causation, Realism, and David Hume""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Preface to the Paperback Edition""; ""Preface to the Revised Edition""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations and Conventions""; ""PART 1: Meaning, Scepticism, and Reality""; ""1: Introduction""; ""2: The `HumeanÂ? view of causation; and an exegetical principle""; ""3: A summary of the argument""; ""4: `ObjectsÂ?: preliminaries""; ""5: The untenability of the realist regularity theory of causation""; ""6: `ObjectsÂ?: complications""; ""6.1 Strict idealism""
- ""6.2 Perception-constituted objects and perception-content-constituted objects""""6.3 A viable regularity theory of causation""; ""6.4 Hume uncommitted""; ""6.5 Supposing and conceiving""; ""6.6 Basic realism""; ""6.7 Bundles and fiction""; ""6.8 Hume in metaphysical space""; ""6.9 Writing as a realist""; ""Appendix Cartoon-film causation: idealism and the regularity theory of causation""; ""7: The notion of the ultimate nature of reality""; ""Appendix Reality and truth""; ""8: `CausationÂ?""; ""9: HumeÂ?s strict scepticism""
- ""10: HumeÂ?s theory of ideas as applied to the idea of causation""""11: The `APÂ? property""; ""11.1 The curious idea of a priori causal inference""; ""11.2 An objection""; ""11.3 The objection varied""; ""12: The problem of meaning""; ""12.1 The `Meaning TensionÂ?""; ""12.2 Experience-transcendent reference: E-intelligibility and R-intelligibility""; ""12.3 Example: Hume on the mind""; ""12.4 Conclusion""; ""13: `External objectsÂ? and Causation""; ""13.1 The parallel""; ""13.2 A possible disanalogy""; ""13.3 An objection""; ""PART 2: Causation in the Treatise""
- ""14: Causation in the Treatise: 1""""14.1 Introduction""; ""14.2 Referring uses of Causation terms""; ""15: Causation in the Treatise: 2""; ""15.1 Three stratagems""; ""15.2 Ignorance, irony, and reality""; ""15.3 HumeÂ?s global subjectivism about necessity""; ""15.4 The `necessity, which we ascribeÂ?; the `necessity, which we conceiveÂ?""; ""15.5 `So far as we have any notion of itÂ?""; ""15.6 Conclusion""; ""PART 3: Causation in the Enquiry""; ""16: Enquiry Section 4: the question of irony""; ""17: Enquiry Section 4: Causation and inductive scepticism""
- ""18: Enquiry Sections 5-6: undiscovered and undiscoverable""""19: Enquiry Section 7: Causation and human beings""; ""19.1 Will and force: a last look at irony""; ""19.2 Resemblance, solidity, and force""; ""19.3 A rhetorical question""; ""20: Enquiry Section 7: the Occasionalists""; ""21: Enquiry Section 7: the two definitions of cause""; ""21.1 Extraordinary ignorance""; ""21.2 The two definitions""; ""21.3 Conclusion""; ""PART 4: Reason, Reality, and Regularity""; ""22: Reason, Reality, and Regularity""; ""22.1 A summary of HumeÂ?s position""