C. D. Broad
C. D. Broad | |
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Broad in 1959 | |
| Born | Charlie Dunbar Broad 30 December 1887 |
| Died | 11 March 1971 (aged 83) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | J. M. E. McTaggart |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral students | Knut Erik Tranøy |
| Main interests | Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, logic |
| Notable ideas | Growing block universe Rate of passage argument The "critical philosophy" and "speculative philosophy" distinction The "occurrent causation" and "non-occurrent causation" distinction |
Charlie Dunbar Broad FBA (30 December 1887 – 11 March 1971), usually cited as C. D. Broad, was an English philosopher who worked on epistemology, history of philosophy, philosophy of science, and ethics, as well as 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.