Editing C. D. Broad (section)

{{Short description|English philosopher (1887–1971)}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
| region          = [[Western philosophy]]
| era             = [[20th-century philosophy]]
| name       = C.&nbsp;D. Broad
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|size=100%}}
| image      = C. D. Broad philosopher.png
| caption    =Broad in 1959
| birth_name = Charlie Dunbar Broad
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=y|1887|12|30}}
| birth_place      = [[Harlesden]], [[Middlesex]], England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=y|1971|3|11|1887|12|30}}
| death_place      = [[Cambridge]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England
| alma_mater       = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| institutions     = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy|Analytic]]
| main_interests   = [[Metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], ethics, [[philosophy of mind]], [[logic]]
| notable_ideas    = [[Growing block universe]]<br>[[Rate of passage argument]]<ref>C. D. Broad (1978), "Ostensible temporality." In Richard M. Gale (ed.), ''[[iarchive:philosophyoftime0000unse_t4a8|The Philosophy of Time: A Collection of Essays]]'', Humanities Press.</ref><ref>Ned Markosian, "How fast does time pass?", ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'' '''53'''(4):829–844 (1993).</ref><br>The "[[critical philosophy]]" and "[[speculative philosophy]]" distinction<ref>C. D. Broad. [http://www.ditext.com/broad/csp.html "Critical and Speculative Philosophy"]. In ''Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements'' (First Series), ed. J. H. Muirhead (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1924): 77–100.</ref><br>The "occurrent causation" and "non-occurrent causation" distinction
| academic_advisors = [[J. M. E. McTaggart]]
| doctoral_students = [[Knut Erik Tranøy]]<ref>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.</ref>
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'''Charlie Dunbar Broad''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (30 December 1887 – 11 March 1971), usually cited as '''C.&nbsp;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 [[argument]]s 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 [[Libertarianism (metaphysics)|libertarian]] [[free will]].