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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding examines causal inference, custom, liberty and necessity. The readings distinguish its arguments from stronger claims about powers or modern determinism.
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Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 83
Can responsibility survive causal explanation?
Hume, van Inwagen and Fischer disagree about the control that responsibility requires. The lesson separates three ideas their arguments rely on: causal determination, alternative possibilities and responsiveness to reasons.
Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 51
Habit, causation and the self
Hume traces our expectations beyond observed cases to custom, and questions whether we ever perceive an unchanging self. His account of the self leaves a difficulty he kept open.