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?