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Having left the critical case to one side since Hume, this chapter returns to look at challenges to the volitional theory of causation, examining four voices in particular. Thomas Brown and James Mill are significant for the developments they propose respecting the empiricist theory of the will, which both regard as being a product of the laws of association; while William Hamilton and John Stuart Mill are important contributors to the story for the direct arguments they offer against the volitional theory. Hamilton questions how introspection could possibly yield the concept of necessity which the theory calls for and Mill highlights the difficulty in moving from the fact that volition is the only known cause to the conclusion that it is the only kind of cause there can be. |
