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Causality: Cause & Effect in Philosophy
A topic hub for causality: what causes are, whether cause and effect are genuinely connected in nature, and how causation grounds science, agency, and explanation.
A topic hub for causality — the relation of cause and effect that connects events, grounds scientific explanation, and raises the question of determinism and free will.
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David Hume
Scottish philosopher whose empiricist investigation of knowledge, causation, and morality reshaped modern philosophy and provoked Kant's critical turn.
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Immanuel Kant
German philosopher whose critical philosophy revolutionized epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics through systematic accounts of reason, experience, and moral duty.
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