The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume: Revised Edition

Author:   Galen Strawson (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
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9780199605859


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Galen Strawson (University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.412kg
ISBN:  

9780199605859


ISBN 10:   0199605858
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Part 1: Meaning, Scepticism, and Reality Part 2: Causation in the Treatise Part 3: Causation in the First Enquiry Part 4: Reason, Reality, and Regularity References Index

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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


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 *


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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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