William Hamilton on Causation

50 Years on: the legacy of William Donald Hamilton.

Evolutionary biology 50 Years on : the legacy of William Donald Hamilton

Evolutionary biology 50 Years on : the legacy of William Donald Hamilton Joan

Sir William Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics *Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. Edited by the Rev. R. L. Mansel, B.D., and John Veitch, M.A. Vols. I. and II. Metaphysics. William Blackwood and Sons. 1859.

From the vagueness and uncertainty of tlie meaning attached to the term metaphysics by various writers, and especially in popular estimation, it has been too frequently held as synonymous witlx all that is incomprehensible and unpractical; as something, the ultimate result of which could but be to bewilder and mislead. In some of the recognised acceptations of the term, perhaps this view may no...

Rosenberg on Causation

This paper is an explication and critique of a new theory of causation found in part II of Gregg Rosenberg's A Place for Consciousness. According to Rosenberg's Theory of Causal significance, causation constrains indeterminate possibilities, and according to his Carrier Theory, physical properties are dispositions which have phenomenal properties as their causal bases. This author finds Rosenbe...