Add to ORKGWritten in 2002/2003 while I was a graduate student at the University of Connecticut and ultimately submitted as part of my qualifying exam for the Master Degree in philosophy. I argue that the causal relation is observable even if the necessity of the connection is not. This version (the only one that remains) was prepared for presentation at the New Jersey Regional Philosophy Associatio
Causation is important. It is, as Hume said, the cement of the universe, and lies at the heart of ou...
There are three basic attitudes towards causation. Radical emp-iricists have aspired to dispose of c...
Philosophical analyses of causation have been centred on the question of what causation is. More pre...
Written in 2002/2003 while I was a graduate student at the University of Connecticut and ultimately ...
Here I should like to explain the fundamental ideas which I made use of in my paper to disentangle t...
Hume was correct in his critique of causation as understood by the New Science, a critique deadly to...
It is traditionally assumed that there is only one theory of causality in Hume's writings. In this a...
I propose a non-Humean theory of causation with “tendencies” as causal connections. Not, however, as...
Any theory of explanation must capture the intimate connection between explanation and causation, or...
Hume begins his discussion of causation with the promise that he will explain fully the relation of ...
In The Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781), the German philosopher Immanuel Kant maint...
In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms – complex systems w...
I claim that causation is a basic feature of the world, of which no substantial philosophical theory...
Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly ...
Contrary to Hume, science has found many ways in which things connect with other things in the world...
Causation is important. It is, as Hume said, the cement of the universe, and lies at the heart of ou...
There are three basic attitudes towards causation. Radical emp-iricists have aspired to dispose of c...
Philosophical analyses of causation have been centred on the question of what causation is. More pre...
Written in 2002/2003 while I was a graduate student at the University of Connecticut and ultimately ...
Here I should like to explain the fundamental ideas which I made use of in my paper to disentangle t...
Hume was correct in his critique of causation as understood by the New Science, a critique deadly to...
It is traditionally assumed that there is only one theory of causality in Hume's writings. In this a...
I propose a non-Humean theory of causation with “tendencies” as causal connections. Not, however, as...
Any theory of explanation must capture the intimate connection between explanation and causation, or...
Hume begins his discussion of causation with the promise that he will explain fully the relation of ...
In The Critique of Pure Reason (first published in 1781), the German philosopher Immanuel Kant maint...
In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms – complex systems w...
I claim that causation is a basic feature of the world, of which no substantial philosophical theory...
Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly ...
Contrary to Hume, science has found many ways in which things connect with other things in the world...
Causation is important. It is, as Hume said, the cement of the universe, and lies at the heart of ou...
There are three basic attitudes towards causation. Radical emp-iricists have aspired to dispose of c...
Philosophical analyses of causation have been centred on the question of what causation is. More pre...