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Ideas of Galen Strawson, by Text

[British, fl. 1996, Son of Peter Strawson. Professor at Reading University.]

1989 The Secret Connexion
App C p.276 A phenomenalist about objects has to be a regularity theorist about causation
     Full Idea: If you are a phenomenalist about objects, then there is an important sense in which you ought to be a Regularity theorist about what causation is, in such objects.
     From: Galen Strawson (The Secret Connexion [1989], App C)
     A reaction: Strawson is denying that Hume is a phenomenalist. One might go a little further, and say that a phenomenalist should abandon the idea of causation (as Russell did).