Abstract
At best, he maintained, we can be justified in believing in holding of certain spatiotemporal regularities between events2 of types at issue? hence was born (or in any case suggested) regularity theory of causation.3 Hume's discussion has inspired a multitude of accounts on which causation is a matter of more or less sophisticated patterns of events.4 This influence reflects common acceptance of two theses, traditionally associ ated with Hume. First is broadly empiricist rejection of the efficacy of causes as an irreducible feature of natural reality, such that, for example, (manifestations of) intrinsic powers or irreducibly causal dispositions are rejected as being ground of causal relations; call this Causal reductionism. Second is that Causal reductionism requires Causal generalism, according to which causal relations between events are metaphysically constituted,
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