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

Galen Strawson
OUP Oxford, 2014 - Philosophy - 246 pages
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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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Title Page

Table of Contents

Index

References




Contents
	Causation in the Treatise
	135
	  	
	Causation in the Enquiry
	163
	  	
	Reason Reality and Regularity
	199
	  	
	References
	236
	  	



	Index
	241
	  	
	Index of Passages from Hume
	244
	  	
	Copyright
	
	  	








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About the author (2014)

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 superieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (1977-8).




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	Title	The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume: Revised Edition
	Author	Galen Strawson
	Edition	illustrated, revised
	Publisher	OUP Oxford, 2014
	ISBN	0199605858, 9780199605859
	Length	246 pages
	Subjects	Philosophy
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