The cement of the universe
by J. L. Mackie · first published 1974
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…Michael Smith: The Moral Problem Specialist, technical, odd: The Frege Reader by Michael Beaney (for modern logic and the beginnings of contemporary philosophy in the analytic style) J. L. Mackie: The Cement of the Universe: A Study of Causation William Kingdon Clifford: The Ethics of Belief (he argues, oddly but powerfully, that it's immoral to believe things on insufficient evidence or irrationally - an offense to morality,…
on “Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?” ↗We keep falling back on Hume as if no one has thought critically about the subject since science became more mature. For the curious, Mackie's "The Cement of the Universe" from 1974 provides a more recent analysis of causation. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cement_of_the_Univer... For a sample, suppose a barn burns down right after someone chucks a lighted match…
on “We know correlation does not imply causality. What does?” ↗