Overview
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 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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Author: Galen Strawson (University of Reading)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.558kg
ISBN: 9780199605842
ISBN 10: 019960584
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 27 March 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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
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 * it stretched me till I twanged * Craig Raine, Observer * beautifully argued * Times Literary Supplement * thoroughly convincing * London Review of Books * a comprehensive and persuasively argued position ... exceptionally well written. * International Studies in Philosophy *
Author Information
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).
