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Causes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Grene
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Queen's University Belfast
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In an essay on ‘The Notion of Cause’ reprinted in Mysticism and Logic (and which constituted the presidential address to the Aristotelian Society in the year 1912) Russell argued ‘that the word ‘cause” is so inextricably bound up with misleading associations as to make its complete extrusion from the philosophical vocabulary desirable’.1 His argument here to the effect that ‘cause’ is not a central concept in science, as philosophers have thought it, is reminiscent of Norman Campbell's statement in Physics: The Elements (1920) and in What is Science? (1921).

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Philosophy , Volume 38 , Issue 144 , April 1963 , pp. 149 - 159
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1963

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