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Offers a novel approach, in terms of causal processes and causal interactions, to the fundamental philosophical problems raised by David Hume in the eighteenth century. His classic critique initiated a lively philosophical controversy that continues today. The author shows how twentieth‐century science, especially quantum mechanics with its challenges to determinism, has opened a new way to attack Hume's problems.
Keywords: causal interaction; causation; determinism; Hume; quantum mechanics
Chapter. 6027 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: Philosophy of Science
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