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8Post-Mechanical Explanation in the Natural and Moral Sciences: The Language of Nature and Human Nature in David Hume and William CullenJahrbuch für Europäische Wissenschaftskultur. forthcoming.It is common wisdom in intellectual history that eighteenth-century science of man evolved under the aegis of Newton. It is also frequently suggested that David Hume, one of the most influential practitioners of this kind of inquiry, aspired to be the Newton of the moral sciences. Usually this goes hand in hand with a more or less explicit reading of Hume’s theory of human nature as written in an idiom of particulate inert matter and active forces acting on it, i.e. essentially that of Newton’s …Read more
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310In Defence of Empty RealismJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 41 (1): 195-197. 2010.This piece defends the distinction I have drawn in my "Two Kinds of Mental Realism" against criticism put forward in János Tőzsér's "Mental Realism Reloaded".
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1Essays on Wittgenstein and Austrian Philosophy—In Honour of J. C. NyíriStudies in East European Thought 60 (1-2): 159-163. 2008.
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109Supervenient causation and programme explanationGrazer Philosophische Studien 64 (1): 83-93. 2002.Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Jaegwon Kim put forward two models of higher-level causal explanation. Advocates of both versions are inclined to draw the conclusion that the models don't differ substantially. I argue, on the contrary, that there are relevant metaphysical differences between Jackson and Pettit's notion of programme explanation on the one hand, and Kim's idea of supervenient causation on the other. These can be traced back to underlying differences between the contents of their…Read more
Tamas Demeter
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Hungarian Academy of SciencesResearch Group Leader, Senior Fellow
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Corvinus University of BudapestProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |