Cause and Effect
A.J. Ayer, 15 October 1981
Hume and the Problem of Causation
by Tom Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg.
Oxford, 327 pp., £15, August 1981,0 19 520236 8 Show More
by Tom Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg.
Oxford, 327 pp., £15, August 1981,
The Science of Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith
by Knud Haakonssen.
Cambridge, 240 pp., £17.50, September 1981,0 521 23891 9 Show More
by Knud Haakonssen.
Cambridge, 240 pp., £17.50, September 1981,
“... On the flyleaf of Messrs Beauchamp and Rosenberg’s book about Hume’s theory of causation, Professor Donald Davidson says of it: ‘This is certainly the best available discussion of Hume and causality. It is much more than that, however: it is the best book-length treatment of causality.’ Professor Davidson is perhaps a little biased by the fact that the authors’ views on the nature of causality coincide so very closely with his own ... ”