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The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, And David Hume: Causation, Realism, and David Hume: Revised Edition Revised, Updated ed. Edition
Author(s): Galen Strawson (Author)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 27 May 2014
Edition: Revised, Updated ed.
Language: English
Print length: 262 pages
ISBN-10: 0199605858
ISBN-13: 9780199605859
Book Description
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.
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a comprehensive and persuasively argued position … exceptionally well written. ― International Studies in Philosophy
thoroughly convincing ―
London Review of Books
beautifully argued ―
Times Literary Supplement
it stretched me till I twanged ―
Craig Raine, Observer
His style is lively, even impassioned. Best of all, he shares the reader’s amusement at his own fevered combing of the text. ―
Australian Journal of Philosophy
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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.
About the Author
Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at Reading University, UK, and the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford (1987-2000). From 2004 to 2007 he was also Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. He has held visiting positions at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University (1993 and 2012), New York University (1997), Rutgers University (2000), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010). Strawson received his degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and studied at the Ecole normale supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (1977-8).
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