C. D. Broad

C. D. Broad
Broad in 1959
Born
Charlie Dunbar Broad

(1887-12-30)30 December 1887
Died11 March 1971(1971-03-11) (aged 83)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisorsJ. M. E. McTaggart
Doctoral studentsKnut Erik Tranøy[1]
Main interests
Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, logic
Notable ideas
Growing block universe
Rate of passage argument[2][3]
The "critical philosophy" and "speculative philosophy" distinction[4]
The "occurrent causation" and "non-occurrent causation" distinction
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Charlie Dunbar Broad FBA (30 December 1887 – 11 March 1971), usually cited as C. D. Broad, was an English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philosophical aspects of psychical research. He was known for his thorough and dispassionate examinations of arguments in such works as Scientific Thought (1923), The Mind and Its Place in Nature (1925), and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (2 vols., 1933–1938).

Broad's essay on "Determinism, Indeterminism, and Libertarianism" in Ethics and the History of Philosophy (1952) introduced the philosophical terms occurrent causation and non-occurrent causation, which became the basis for the contemporary distinction between "agent-causal" and "event-causal" in debates on libertarian free will.

  1. ^ Knut E. Tranøy, "Wittgenstein in Cambridge 1949–1951: Some Personal Recollections", in: F. A. Flowers III, Ian Ground (eds.), Portraits of Wittgenstein: Abridged Edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, p. 452.
  2. ^ C. D. Broad (1978), "Ostensible temporality." In Richard M. Gale (ed.), The Philosophy of Time: A Collection of Essays, Humanities Press.
  3. ^ Ned Markosian, "How fast does time pass?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53(4):829–844 (1993).
  4. ^ C. D. Broad. "Critical and Speculative Philosophy". In Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements (First Series), ed. J. H. Muirhead (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1924): 77–100.