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Hume and his Predecessors on the Causal Maxim

E. J. Khamara & D. G. C. Macnabb

In E. J. Khamara & D. G. C. Macnabb (eds.), David Hume (1977)

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Mill on Matter.J. P. Day - 1963 - Philosophy 38 (143):52 - 60.details Mill holds a metaphysical theory about the nature of things which is of the sensationalist or phenomenalist variety, and which he derives admittedly from the idealism of Berkeley. This metaphysical theory is introduced into a discussion in which he is attempting something different, namely, to offer a rival psychological account to Hamilton's intuitionist one of how it is that men possess that familiar but complex conception, Nature or the external world. It will be convenient to consider his psychological theory first. Download Export citation Bookmark
Hume against Locke on the causal principle.Edward J. Khamara - 2000 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8 (2):339 – 343.details Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Demea's a priori Theistic Proof.Kenneth Williford - 2003 - Hume Studies 29 (1):99-123.details Hume's examination of the causal maxim in 1.3.3 of A Treatise of Human Nature can be considered, at least in part, a thinly veiled critique of the cosmological argument, attacking as it does the privileged status of the principle upon which that proof rests. As well, Hume's remarks on the impossibility of demonstrating matters of fact a priori in Part 3 of Section 12 of An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding clearly strike at the heart of the ontological argument, even if (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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