Secret Connexion : Causation, Realism, and David Hume

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strawson, Galen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Hume, David, -- 1711-1776.

Local Subjects:

Causation.

Hume, David, -- 1711-1776.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Other Title:

Secret Connexion

Place of Publication:

Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2014.

Summary:

In this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. Strawson challenges the standard view of Hume, according to which he thinks that there is no such thing as causal influence, and that there is nothing more to causation than things of one kind regularly following things things of another kind. He argues that Hume does believe 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:

""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""

""22.2 The general form of the argument for Causation""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-102266-7

0-19-101539-3

OCLC:

922972995