An exposition of Anscombe's Causality and Determination
A famous Anscombe essay.
Labels: Anscombe, causality, determinism
posted by Victor Reppert @ 11:25 AM
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2 Comments:
At December 02, 2010 2:35 AM ,
awatkins69 said...
Thank you for sharing this.
At December 02, 2010 8:55 AM ,
Brenda said...
I don't think this gets you what you presumably would like it to. Anscombe challenged Hume's idea of causation as "constant conjunction" which lead to probabilistic ideas of causation. She also challenged Hume's doctrine that causation is not observable.
I tend to agree with her in this.
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