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Natural-Agency Theory as an Alternative to Hume: A Reply to Andrew Ward
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- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 3 - 12
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1 Ward, Andrew, “Is Gerwin's Natural-Agency Theory a Viable Alternative to Hume?” Dialogue 33 (1994): 733–42CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The natural-agency theory was advanced in Martin Gerwin, “Causality and Agency: A Refutation of Hume,” Dialogue 26 (1987): 3–17Google Scholar.
2 Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature, edited by Selby-Bigge, L. A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888), p. 163Google Scholar. Cf. Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Selby-Bigge, L. A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902), p. 78Google Scholar.
3 Hume, , Treatise, p. 171Google Scholar.
4 Ibid., p. 165; cf. Hume, , Enquiry, pp. 73–76Google Scholar.
5 Ward, , “Gerwin's Natural-Agency Theory,” pp. 734, 738Google Scholar.
6 Ibid., p. 735.
7 Ibid., pp. 734-35.
8 Hume, , Treatise, p. 157;Google Scholar cf. Hume, , Enquiry, p. 64Google Scholar n.
9 Hume, , Treatise, Appendix, pp. 632–33;Google Scholar cf. Hume, , Enquiry, pp. 62–67Google Scholar. See Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Fraser, Alexander Campbell (Oxford University Press, 1894; rpt. New York: Dover Books, 1959), Book 2, chap. 22, esp. Vol. 1, pp. 313-14Google Scholar.
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15 Ibid.
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17 Piaget, Jean, The Child's Conception of the World, translated by Joan, and Tomlinson, Andrew (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1929), chap. 5Google Scholar.
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19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Piaget, Jean, The Child's Construction of Reality, translated by Cook, Margaret (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955), p. 225Google Scholar.