The Secret Connexion

The Secret Connexion
Title The Secret Connexion PDF eBook
Author Galen Strawson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 263
Release 2014-02
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 019960584X

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In this revised edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. He argues that Hume believes 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.

The Secret Connexion

The Secret Connexion
Title The Secret Connexion PDF eBook
Author Galen Strawson
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 320
Release 1989
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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The "regularity" theory of causation is often regarded as one of Hume's greatest contributions to philosophy. Arguing that the theory is indefensible, Strawson maintains that such a claim about nature would have been utterly contrary to Hume's fundamental philosophical principles, and that he never adopted it in any case.

The Evident Connexion

The Evident Connexion
Title The Evident Connexion PDF eBook
Author Galen Strawson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 178
Release 2011-05-05
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199608504

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The Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle' theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no subjects of experience.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Title An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher e-artnow
Pages 119
Release 2019-04-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 8027303893

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"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."

The Mars Mystery

The Mars Mystery
Title The Mars Mystery PDF eBook
Author Graham Hancock
Publisher Crown
Pages 476
Release 2010-08-11
Genre Science
ISBN 0307557790

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An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves and our planet from extinction? In his most riveting and revealing book yet, Graham Hancock examines the evidence that the barren Red Planet was once home to a lush environment of flowing rivers, lakes, and oceans. Could Mars have sustained life and civilization? Megaliths found on the parched shores of Cydonia, a former Martian ocean, mirror the geometrical conventions of the pyramids at Egypt's Giza necropolis. Especially startling is a Sphinx-like structure depicting a face with distinguishable diadem, teeth, mouth and an Egyptian-style headdress. Might there be a connection between the structures of Egypt and those of Mars? Why does NASA continue to dismiss these remarkable anomalies as "a trick of light"? Hancock points to the intriguing possibility that ancient Martian civilization is communicating with us through the remarkable structures it left behind. In exploring the possible traces left by the Martian civilization and the cosmic cataclysm that may have ended it, The Mars Mystery is both an illumination of our ancient past and a warning--that we still have time to heed--about our ultimate fate.

The New Hume Debate

The New Hume Debate
Title The New Hume Debate PDF eBook
Author Rupert Read
Publisher Routledge
Pages 223
Release 2002-11
Genre Education
ISBN 1134555288

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Causation and Modern Philosophy

Causation and Modern Philosophy
Title Causation and Modern Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Keith Allen
Publisher Routledge
Pages 280
Release 2011-02
Genre History
ISBN 113682006X

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This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume advances the understanding of early modern discussions of causation, and situates these discussions in the wider context of early modern philosophy and science. Specifically, the volume contains essays on key early modern thinkers, such as Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant. It also contains essays that examine the important contributions to the causation debate of less widely discussed figures, including Louis la Forge, Thomas Brown and Lady Mary Shepherd.