causation

Philosophy

Philosophers

• AristotleAristotle (384–322 BCE) was Plato's student, but his surviving work ranges far beyond a reaction against Plato: logic, ethics, politics, metaphysics, rhetoric, poetry, psychology, and detailed biological investigation.
• David HumeDavid Hume (1711–1776) pushes empiricism until familiar assumptions start looking strange. We experience sequences of events, habits, feelings, and perceptions — but where exactly do ideas such as necessary causation, enduring selfhood, or rationally guaranteed induction come from?