Download or read book The Secret Connexion written by Galen Strawson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. Strawson challenges the standard view of Hume, according to which he thinks that there is no such thing as causal influence, and that there is nothing more to causation than things of one kind regularly following things things of another kind. He argues that Hume does believe in causal influence, but insists that we cannot know its nature. The regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and Hume never adopted it in any case.