Causality

This is the assumption underlying all our ideas of causality. If the future does not resemble the past, then all our reason based on cause and effect will crumble. When Hume proposed questions such as “Is there any more intelligible proposition then to affirm that all trees will flourish in December and January

1 Introduction Causation in the Law by Hart and Honoré attempts to find a middle ground between causal minimalists and causal maximalists, arguing that legal decision-making utilises causal connections beyond merely informing policy decisions, and yet not so far as to make them necessary and sufficient conditions of responsibility. However, the authors are only able to reliably discuss the role that causation plays in legal decision-making having first described a “common-sense” conception of causation

1. Define parallel forms reliability and split-half reliability. Explain how they are assessed. Parallel forms reliability is a type of measure of reliability that you can get by doing different types of assessment. They must both have same construct and knowledge system with the same group of people. You must make two parallel forms and create a questionnaire that will have the same system and by random divide the questionnaire into two different sets. Between the two parallel forms whatever correlation

course, or are our actions free from the chain of causality and thus our own? I believe that you can’t take these two questions as black and white. In my opinion compatibilism - which attempts to merge free will and determinism - explains our situation as humans, with a sense of moral responsibility, more clearly. Let’s start at Libertarianism, explained by Campbell as a theory which claims that humans are free agents unaffected by the chain of causality that rules the natural world. every action we

1. Quine in his paper titled “On What There Is” (Kim, Sosa, & Korman, 2012, p. 7-15) aims to provide an account of two different ontologies and suggests that his answer is the better answer to the ontological problem. Ontology deals with the question of what there is. The problem is understanding what the right answer is. In this response, I will explain Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment and his response to McX’s argument for the existence of universals. McX is a fictitious philosopher

Human’s free will is one of the most debatable problems in the field of both philosophy and ethics. Does everybody has a control on his choices and actions or it all was determined in advance. According to the Scottish philosopher David Hume on the problem of free will: “the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science” [1]. Free will is defined as the ability of humans to take decisions that are not determined by divine intervention or caused by a preceding cause [2]. It

points out however, a ragged hole in Kim’s conclusion. Kim asserts, as if to appease us, that mental states are both epiphenomenal and causal. By describing mental states as “superveniently causal,” i.e. appearing to be causal based on the true causality of their microproperties, he has satisfied Hume’s requirements for causation, i.e. that causation itself is

Drabek & Payne(1999) investment inflows. Bribery, corruption, and precarious commercial strategies lead to non-transparency. The discover seizes external manage investment, transparency, inflation, transactions rate, attention rate open of transactions administration and commercial development as variables. The discover concludes that a state ought to rise its transparency level in order to appeal higher level of external manage investment and this increased level of external manage investment should

Analysis Of The Current Financial Crisis YourFirstName YourLastName University title Student’s name Professor Subject Date Financial crisis is a situation where the financial value of assets or an economy drops by a significant margin that can cripple the normal functioning of an economy of the affected country. Different economists came forward to explain theories that lead to the different financial crisis especially in the history. These economists include

Of the many philosophers that we have covered in class, many have theorized as to what exactly constitutes knowing and the conditions which make knowing possible. One of these philosophers is David Hume who is his book An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, claims that reasoning cannot demonstrate that things in the world exist therefore, all we can really know are our sense perceptions. An obvious flaw that is seen with Hume’s philosophy is that he reduces all knowledge to sense perceptions