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examine his theory of intentional agency, which – in the tradition of Thomas Hobbes – he expounds under the heading “Of Liberty and Necessity”. But there are significant discrepancies between his discussions of this topic in Book 2 of the Treatise of Human Nature (1739) and his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748).
Dec 14, 2007 · It is widely accepted that David Hume’s contribution to the free will debate is one of the most influential statements of the “compatibilist” position, where this is understood as the view that human freedom and moral responsibility can be reconciled with (causal) determinism.
David Hume is universally associated with the regularity theory of cau-sation, which is generally understood as involving a ‘reduction’ of causal relations between objects to regular succession (and a corresponding asso-ciation of ideas in the observing mind) through his two defi nitions of cause:
Hume, Causal Realism, and Free Will. Peter Millican, Hertford College, Oxford. My aim in this paper is to present what I consider to be the decisive objection against the ‘New Hume’ Causal realist interpretation of Hume, and to refute three recent attempts to answer this objection.
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Dec 5, 2014 · THE CONTENTS THOMAS HOBBES Section I. Doctrine of free will stated. Not every action free, nor every free action equally free. Calculability of human action...
In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume thought that free will (or “liberty,” to use his term) is simply the “power of acting or of not acting, according to the determination of the will: that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.… This hypothetical liberty is universally allowed ...
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1859, Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things.
