David Hume is a British empiricist, meaning he thought that all knowledge is ultimately rooted in sense experience and that all our ideas arise from prior sense impressions or reflection, this theory had an enormous effect on Humes' explanation of causality. In this essay I will examine Humes' account of causation and examine whether it is possible to defend some version of the regularity view of causation. Before examining the regularity view of causation it is important to examine Humes' copying principle since his view on causation is related to this. Hume states that “all our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions or in other words it is impossible for us to think of anything which we have not previously felt, either with our external or internal senses”.1 Hume states that experience and observation gives us all our ideas, there are no innate ideas. For example, we can have an image of a mountain and an image of gold and our minds can make a mental connection and find the idea of ​​a mountain of gold, so simple ideas give us impressions of the necessary connections. However Hume argues that there is no actual and necessary connection and that "it is merely a constant conjunction of events" from which the feeling of necessary connection arises. The view of the regularity of causality is: c cause e iffa) c is space-time contiguous to e ;b) and happens to c in time; and c) all events of type c (i.e. events that are like c) are regularly followed by (or are consistently conjoined with) events of type e.2 Basically Hume is saying that c causes e when the two always occur together, the which means I am constantly joined. Where we find c we will also find ee we will become certain that this conjunction will more than likely occur... in the middle of the paper... a cause, but as said above it is too difficult to specify to a certain set of causes and hope to have satisfied all the criteria. Works CitedHume, David, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, http://www.davidhume.org/texts/ehu#SBN60Mackie, JL, Cement of the Universe, URL http ;// St andrews.ac.uk/mms/module/ 2011_2/S1/PY2002/Content/Lecture+2/Mackie_CH3.pdfMorris, William Edward, "David Hume", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .Ninan, Dilip, PY2002 Lecture 1 Hume on Causation, Conference Handout (St Andrews 2011).Ninan, Dilip, PY2002 Lecture 2 Mackie on the Regularity View of Causation, Conference Handout (St Andrews 2011).Psillos, Stathis, Causation and Explanation, (Acumen Publishing Ltd, 2002).