Kant on Causation: On the Fivefold Routes to the Principle of Causation

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An in-depth examination of the nature of Kant's causal principle. Kant on Causation......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 1. Relationships......Page 18 CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS......Page 19 Kant’s introduction to the problem of the Schematism and his introductory solution......Page 20 Leibniz......Page 21 Hume......Page 22 Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and applicability......Page 24 The importance of the Schematism......Page 26 A problem with Kant’s account of the Schematism......Page 27 THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION AND THE PRINCIPLES......Page 30 PRINCIPLES OF UNDERSTANDING AND PRINCIPLES OF REASON......Page 33 ANALOGIES OF EXPERIENCE......Page 39 KANT AND HUME......Page 43 Hume’s Doubt......Page 45 Hume’s reasons for doubting the possibility of demonstration......Page 47 Transcendental proof and Kant’s proof of the causal principle......Page 49 THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SECOND ANALOGY......Page 52 The Same-Cause-Same-Effect thesis......Page 56 The Every-Event-Some-Cause thesis......Page 60 POSSIBLE ARGUMENT STRATEGIES......Page 62 EVALUATION OF ARGUMENT STRATEGIES......Page 68 The Veridical Strategy......Page 69 The Event/Object Strategy......Page 72 The Event/Event Strategy......Page 75 The Justification Strategy......Page 84 4. The Irreversibility Argument......Page 92 LOVEJOY’S POSITION......Page 93 STRAWSON’S POSITION......Page 98 BENNETT’S POSITION......Page 104 MELNICK’S POSITION......Page 106 GUYER’S POSITION......Page 109 THE HOUSE, THE SHIP, AND IRREVERSIBILITY......Page 114 5. Objects of Representations......Page 120 THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SECOND ANALOGY......Page 121 SUBJECT TO A RULE......Page 124 OBJECTS OF REPRESENTATIONS AND BEING SUBJECT TO A RULE......Page 125 IRREVERSIBILITY REVISITED: ARE SUCCESSIONS OF APPEARANCES SUBJECT TO A RULE?......Page 129 AN EXAMPLE FOR THE OFFICIAL DEFINITION......Page 133 SUCCESSIONS OF APPEARANCES MUST BE SUBJECT TO A RULE......Page 135 The requirements for a succession of appearances’ being subject to a rule......Page 137 Are my requirements too strong?......Page 138 Repeatability......Page 140 Necessary Order......Page 143 Repeatability......Page 145 Necessary Order and Necessity......Page 147 Is this really a causal theory?......Page 152 A BRIEF REVIEW......Page 154 TRANSCENDENTAL PROOF AND THE MISTAKE STRATEGY......Page 156 A PROBLEM WITH KANT’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROOF AND MISTAKE STRATEGY......Page 160 THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS PROBLEM......Page 161 TURNING THE COPY THESIS ON ITS HEAD......Page 163 PROBLEM: DRAWING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN A BEGINNING OF EXISTENCE AND A CAUSE OF EXISTENCE......Page 165 FINAL STATUS OF KANT’S ANSWER TO HUME......Page 167 ON THE GUIDE(S) TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROUTE TO THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSATION......Page 170 The house, the ship, and irreversibility......Page 171 Synthetic and a priori......Page 174 Constitutive versus regulative......Page 175 Objects of representations......Page 177 OBJECT OF EXPERIENCE STRATEGIES......Page 179 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 184 L......Page 190 W......Page 191