Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• zahra Esmaeili ¹
• Mohammad Hakkak ²

¹ PhD Candidate of Philosophy, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. Iran.

² Associate Professor of Philosophy, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. Iran.

Abstract

The scope of this research is the study of Hume's solution for the problem of induction. The philosophers still wonder whether they could determine unobserved instances based upon similar observed ones. However, Hume didn't employ this problem directly in his books but he answered this question within the discussion of causation. According to Hume's point-of-view, the source of universals that is based on particles; is in the human spirit. The nature of human spirit, after frequently observation of successions in the past, expects to observe same succession in future. All Hume interpreters agree on everything said. But they have different opinions on whether Hume had any further theory about causation. In this paper, first a faithful to context report about causation and accordingly Induction Problem with Hume is presented and then different interpretations on Hume's causation are introduced briefly and finally each interpretation is discussed thoroughly citing its shortcomings briefly.  

In this paper, first a faithful to context report about causation and accordingly Induction Problem with Hume is presented and then different interpretations oh Hume's causation are introduced briefly and finally each interpretation is discussed thoroughly citing its shortcomings briefly.

Keywords

• Hume
• the problem of induction
• causality
• causal reductionism
• causal realism
• causal skepticism

Main Subjects

• philosophy