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Friedrich Waismann’s typescript “Causality” (2010) dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s, and derives from lectures he gave at Oxford in 1947–8, where he was then university lecturer (and later reader in the philosophy of mathematics). The typescript is divided into twelve sections, and Waismann devotes much of one section to an engagement with A. C. Ewing’s paper “A Defence of Causality” (1933).
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Bird, A. (2011). Waismann Versus Ewing on Causality. In: McGuinness, B. (eds) Friedrich Waismann - Causality and Logical Positivism. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1751-0_8
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