Banca de DEFESA: DIEGO DE SOUZA HIRATA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : DIEGO DE SOUZA HIRATA
DATE: 04/10/2023
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: FFCH
TITLE:

The Problem of Justification of Causality of the Philosophy of David Hume

KEY WORDS:

Causality; David Hume; Experience; Justification; Naturalism.

PAGES: 82
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Epistemologia
SUMMARY:

The human reason is divided into three kinds: the first from knowledge, the second from
probabilities, and the third from proofs. The first one arrives from comparison of ideas and it is
not subject to the experience’s scrutiny. The other two kinds of reasoning are formed by matter
of facts, whose argumments are based on causes and effects, and any evidency of their
jugdments must appeal to experience. The reasonings from knowlegde, or demonstrative
reasonings, are justified by reason and its propositions are intuitively certain. The reasonings
from probabilities, or probable reasonings, it does not has the same sucess. Based on
probabilities, they consider the chances that the same object has to provide the same result. Due
the lack of evidence and for not beying able to intuitively demonstrate their judgments, they
can only judge about the conjectures of existence. As I will argue throughout this dissertation,
probable reasonings are incapable of justifying their arguments. Consequently, the hypothesis
that I will assume is that the reasonings from proofs is the only way to justify causality
arguments. Therefore, I will first examine Hume’s theory of perception, in order to show
knowlegde’s structure and the nature of impressions and ideas that conceive the reasonings.
This inicial exam will serve to, posteriorly, examine the foundations of causal reasoning. As
such, in a second moment, I will examine Hume’s arguments about the principles of human
nature that associate perceptions on the imagination. I will then argue that this principles, when
recognized as proofs, explain all the logic employed in causal reasoning, and thus justify
arguments from causality.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1688754 - MARIANA DE ALMEIDA CAMPOS
Interno - 1083320 - DANIEL TOURINHO PERES
Externa à Instituição - MARÍLIA CORTEZ FERRAZ