PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Electric Light, Blackboard, Chicken Salad

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sardar Hosseini

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Chapter 6- causal analysis (reasoning about cause and effect) David hume formulated the basic analysis of casual relationships a causes. B , if the following conditions met: if a is contiguous to b, if a is prior to b. Effect cannot be before the cause, cause must come first) connection): if a and b are constantly conjoined (constant conjunction or necessary so, to claim a causal relationship between events a and b we say. Whenever a occurs, then b occurs, or event of a is always followed by event. Therefore, exposure to high levels of second-hand smoke causes lung cancer. Three different meanings of causation in modern time, philosophers began to use the terms cause and effect with a variety of different meanings such as: cause as sufficient condition. The lack of coolant in the radiator makes the engine to overheat. However, the presence of a does not imply that b will occur =