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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. The Pre‐Critical Period 2. The Pre‐Critical Period
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2.1 The Nova Dilucidatio: The Initial Response to Leibniz, Wolff, and Crusius 2.1 The Nova Dilucidatio: The Initial Response to Leibniz, Wolff, and Crusius
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2.2 The Essay on Negative Magnitudes: The Initial Response to Hume 2.2 The Essay on Negative Magnitudes: The Initial Response to Hume
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2.3 The Inaugural Dissertation 2.3 The Inaugural Dissertation
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3. The Critical Period 3. The Critical Period
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3.1 The Categories of Causality and Mutual Interaction 3.1 The Categories of Causality and Mutual Interaction
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3.2 The Second Analogy of Experience 3.2 The Second Analogy of Experience
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3.2.1 The Claim 3.2.1 The Claim
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3.2.2 The Argument 3.2.2 The Argument
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3.3 The Third Analogy of Experience 3.3 The Third Analogy of Experience
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3.3.1 The Claim and the Argument 3.3.1 The Claim and the Argument
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3.3.2 The Metaphysics of Causality 3.3.2 The Metaphysics of Causality
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4. Causality and the Sciences 4. Causality and the Sciences
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4.1 The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science: Physics 4.1 The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science: Physics
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4.2 The Critique of the Power of Judgment: Biology 4.2 The Critique of the Power of Judgment: Biology
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Further Reading Further Reading
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References References
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5 Kant
Get accessEric Watkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely on Kant’s philosophy, including Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and “Kant on the Hiddenness of God” (Kantian Review, 2009).
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Published:02 January 2010
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Abstract
Kant's views on causality have long been of interest to philosophers as promising an alternative to Hume's empiricist account without thereby falling back into a strictly or straightforwardly rationalist position. Slightly more specifically, Kant holds that a causal principle according to which every event has a cause, or follows according to a causal law, cannot be established through induction as a purely empirical claim, since it would then lack strict universality, or necessity. This article briefly describes the historical context in which Kant develops his account of causality, and then clarifies some central features pertaining to the meaning, justification, and presuppositions of the claims that form the heart of this account before concluding with a brief sketch of how his views on causality are incorporated into his views in physics and biology. Accordingly, the article discusses Kant's views on causality in his pre-Critical period.
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