Thomas Brown

Inquiry Into the Relation of Cause and Effect

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Produktbeschreibung

The third edition, published in 1818, of an influential work examining Hume's theory of causation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 588
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9781108040792
• ISBN-10: 1108040799
• Artikelnr.: 34571646

Autorenporträt

Thomas Brown has spent the best part of his life reading and studying fiction of all kinds, but his heart beats for Horror and Fantasy. In 2010, he won the University of Southampton's Flash Fiction Competition for his short story, 'Crowman'. In 2014, he won the Almond Press Short Story Competition, 'Broken Worlds'. In the same year, his first novel, LYNNWOOD, was a finalist for The People's Book Prize. In 2018, he completed a doctoral degree at the University of Southampton examining the limitations of language and how to navigate them to better communicate meaning through fiction. He lives and works in a small market town bordering the Cotswolds, where he still writes every day.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the third edition
Introduction
1. On the real import of the relation of cause and effect
2. On the sources of illusion with respect to the relation
3. On the circumstances in which the belief of the relation arises
4. On Mr Hume's theory of our belief in the relation
Notes.