Maxwell, N;
(1968)
Can there be necessary connections between successive events?
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
, 19
(1)
1 - 25.
10.1093/bjps/19.1.1.
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to refute Hume's contention that there cannot be logically necessary connections between successive events. I intend to establish, in other words, not 'Logically necessary connections do exist between successive events', but instead the rather more modest proposition: 'It may be, it is possible, as far as we can ever know for certain, that logically necessary connections do exist between successive events'. Towards the end of the paper I say something about the implications of rejecting Hume's contention.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Can there be necessary connections between successive events? |
| Location: | UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjps/19.1.1 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjps/19.1.1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Maxwell, N (1968) Can there be necessary connections between successive events? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science , 19 (1) 1 – 25 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjps/19.1.1 |
| Keywords: | necessary connections, causation, David Hume, necessitating properties, dispositional properties, essentialistic physics, refutation of Hume |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1348841 |
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