El Camino College Philosophical Causal Statements Research Essay

Main topic: first, explain in your own words what ordinary causal statements (statements about cause and effect) purport to say.

Next, tell us why Hume rejects this understanding of causal statements.

Finally, what, according to Hume is the right way to understand causal statements?

For extra topic: Can Hume distinguish between an accidental correlation of events and a causal relation? Explain the difference between these using an example, and discuss why you think Hume’s theory of causation can or cannot account for the difference.