The Revival of Causal Realism From Husserl to the
Present:Some Recent History and a Critical
Commentary
The Revival of Causal Realism From Husserl to the Present:Some Recent History and a Critical Commentary
Herbert Hochberg
Herbert Hochberg
Keywords: Causality, Necessity, Laws, Regularities, Facts, Truth-maker, Modality, Generality
Abstract: The paper considers the problems posed by the
recent revival of causal realism in the 1970s by a number of
philosophers--principally D. M. Armstrong's version. It
points to basic flaws in the view and attempts to defend it
and also shows that what has recently been proposed simply
repeats turn of the century views of Husserl, Broad and
McTaggart. It ends by proposing an alternatives form of
causal realism compatible with Hume's insights.
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