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Can we all see a ball knock skittles over? Or, more broadly, can we see one event cause another? Only if causality is a real connection between individual events. In this programme Dr. Rosalind Hur...sthouse outlines the views of David Hume, an 18th century philosopher, who denied the existence of such a connection, and sketches the possibility of a rival view. The result is a visually fascinating programme, and a very interesting analysis of what's at the basis of all cause and effect arguments.
Can we all see a ball knock skittles over? Or, more broadly, can we see one event cause another? Only if causality is a real connection between individual events. In this programme Dr. Rosalind Hur...sthouse outlines the views of David Hume, an 18th century philosopher, who denied the existence of such a connection, and sketches the possibility of a rival view. The result is a visually fascinating programme, and a very interesting analysis of what's at the basis of all cause and effect arguments.
| Module code and title: | A313, Philosophical problems |
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| Item code: | A313; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 05-02-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | David Jackson |
| Contributor: | Rosalind Hursthouse |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Causality; Descartes, Rene,--1596-1650; Hume, David,--1711-1776 |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73748 |
| Production number: | FOUA087W |
| Videofinder number: | 1291 |
| Available to public: | no |
