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Metaphysics

CONTEMPORARY METAPHYSICS NOTES Lecture 3


Hume – Regularity theory of Causation - Universalist
1) A causes B – are spatio-temporally contiguous
2) A prior to B
3) A-type events preceed B-type events
Problems
1) action at a distance
2) backward causation
3) 1,2,3 satisfied yet no causation
4) Reduction
Anscombe – Singularist – Causation is perceivable
Rejects – 1) Causation is necessary connection 2) if A causes B then there is always an exceptionless generalization
3) if an effect occurs in one case but not in another there must be a further relevant difference
Why?

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