The secret connexion : causation, realism, and David Hume / by Galen Strawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, Galen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 246 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

Secret connection

Causation, realism, and David Hume

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 is indefensible, and Hume never adopted it in any case.

Contents:

pt. 1 Meaning, Scepticism, and Reality

1. Introduction

2. The H̀umean' view of causation; and an exegetical principle

3. A summary of the argument

4. Òbjects': preliminaries

5. The untenability of the realist regularity theory of causation

6. Òbjects': 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. tC̀ausation'

9. Hume's strict scepticism

10. Hume's theory of ideas as applied to the idea of causation

11. The ÀP' 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 M̀eaning Tension'

12.2. Experience-transcendent reference: E-intelligibility and R-intelligibility

12.3. Example: Hume on the mind

12.4. Conclusion

13. Èxternal objects' and Causation

13.1. The parallel

13.2. A possible disanalogy

13.3. An objection

pt. 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. Hume's global subjectivism about necessity

15.4. The ǹecessity, which we ascribe'; the ǹecessity, which we conceive'

15.5. Sò far as we have any notion of it'

15.6. Conclusion

pt. 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

pt. 4 Reason, Reality, and Regularity

22. Reason, Reality, and Regularity

22.1. A summary of Hume's position

22.2. The general form of the argument for Causation

Appendix The Contingent Reality of Natural Necessity

23. The meaning of c̀ause'

23.1. Content: experience and concepts

23.2. The Ànscombean' approach

23.3. The wisdom of nature

23.4. Causation: a non-sensory property.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version

OCLC:

1336401603