• Corpus ID: 16575373

Hume ’ s Analysis of Causality : Its Limitations and Implications

@inproceedings{Gao2007HumeS,
  title={Hume ’ s Analysis of Causality : Its Limitations and Implications},
  author={Shan Gao},
  year={2007}
}
We give a brief introduction of Hume’s epistemology and his penetrating analysis of causality. It is pointed out that there are some flaws in his epistemology and his theory of causation. Alternative theories of causation are then briefly introduced. Partly inspired by Hume’s analysis of necessary connexion, we present a new argument of causation. We argue that Hume’s removing necessary connexion from causality can help to provide a promising way to unify the law of causality and indeterminism… 
No Paper Link Available

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 42 REFERENCES
Mechanisms and the nature of causation
In this paper I offer an analysis of causation based upon a theory of mechanisms-complex systems whose “internal” parts interact to produce a system's “external” behavior. I argue that all but the…
Kant's Conception of "Hume's Problem"
IN 1783, forty-four years after the appearance of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, and thirty-five years after that of his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, a Prussian philosopher named…
Causation
As cause we often specify an event the occurrence of which first guaranteed that of the effect. This notion is explicated in a framework of branching worlds in Sections I to V. VI and VII point out…
Are There Really Instantaneous Velocities
Zeno argued that since at any instant an arrow does not change its location, the arrow does not move at any time, and hence motion is impossible. I discuss the following three views that one could…
The collected works of Spinoza
The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical…
A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets.
TLDR
Experimental results suggest that 2- to 4-year-old children construct new causal maps and that their learning is consistent with the Bayes net formalism.
Enquiries: Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
Reprinted from the posthumous edition of 1777 and edited with introduction, comparative tables of contents, and analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Third edition with text revised and notes by P.…
Ontological Issues in using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concepts: Experience from GALEN
TLDR
This paper articulates the principles arrived at from the experience of the GALEN programme and illustrates them with an overview of the its ontology, theGALEN Common Reference Model.
Time and Chance
Time and ChanceThe Story of Arthur Evans and his Forebears. By Joan Newhouse. Pp. xi + 410 + 15 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd., 1943.) 21s. net.
The basis of indeterminism
We show that the instant motion of particle should be essentially discontinuous and random. This gives the logical basis of indeterminism.
...
1
2
3
4
5
...