Causality
Causality
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10.1177/001258063805600103
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1938-01
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Illtyd Trethowan
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Illtyd Trethowan
对于一个天主教徒来说，写一篇技术性的哲学论文是一项相当令人沮丧的任务，因为他与L和L一起批评的哲学家不太可能读到这篇文章。因此，霍金斯值得我们特别感谢；这样的工作是必要的，其效果虽然缓慢，但是肯定的。这本书有许多优点。它揭示了关于这个主题的当代英语思想的广泛知识；索引将显示许多关于心灵、《亚里士多德学会论文集》和现代逻辑著作的参考文献(编排良好的目录给出了该书在这方面的范围的一些想法)。最近消除因果关系概念的尝试被非常谨慎地击退。这篇文章几乎总是很吸引人，没有任何疏漏或印刷错误掩盖了这一论点，这一定是近年来天主教哲学书籍的记录。不幸的是，对霍金斯的书有任何特别评论的唯一评论(据作者目前所知)并没有分享最后的这些优点，那就是在平板电脑上(1937年10月23日)。我希望L、L能考虑一下这篇文章，因为它所包含的批评是值得澄清的，所以后面会更详细地引用L和L的话。我们在这里要提出的主要批评影响到霍金斯所采取的政策。他写了一本小书(就像有人说康德的评论，如果读得更长些，会更快)，到目前为止，大部分都被这个问题的历史背景和
IT is a rather depressing task for a Catholic to write a technical philosophical essay, for it is improbable that the philosophers whom he criticises wi l l read it . F r Hawkins therefore deserves our thanks in a special w a y ; such work as this is necessary and its effects, though slow, are sure. There are a number of excellences about the book. I t reveals a wide knowledge of contem porary English thought on the subject ; an index would have shown many references to Mind, to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society and to works of modern logic (the well-arranged table of contents gives some idea of the book's scope in this respect). Recent attempts to eliminate the notion of causality are very carefully repulsed. The writing is almost invariably attractive, and there are no slips or misprints obscuring the argument, which must be something like a record for Catholic philosophical books in recent years. These last virtues unfortunately are not shared by the only review (to the writer's present knowledge) which has had anything in particular to say about F r Hawkins's book, that in the Tablet (October 23rd, 1937). I t wi l l be of advantage to consider this article, for the criticisms which it em bodies deserve to be made clear, and it wi l l therefore be quoted later in some detail. T h e main criticism that we have to offer here affects the policy which F r Hawkins has adopted. He has written a small book (as someone said of Kant's Critique, it would have been quicker to read had it been longer) and by far the greater part is taken up by the historical setting of the question and