文档介绍:Kant on Causation
SUNY series in Philosophy
e R. Lucas Jr., editor
Kant on Causation
On the Fivefold Routes to the
Principle of Causation
Steven M. Bayne
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bayne, Steven M.
Kant on causation : on the fivefold routes to the principle of causation /
Steven M. Bayne.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5901-2 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5902-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804. 2. Causation. I. Title. II. Series.
2003
122'.092—dc22 2003190073
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 Relationships 1
Concepts and intuitions 2
Kant’s introduction to the problem of the Schematism
and his introductory solution 3
Kant’s true task in the Schematism 4
Leibniz 4
Hume 5
Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and applicability 7
The importance of the Schematism 9
A problem with Kant’s account of the Schematism 10
The transcendental deduction and the principles 13
Principles of Understanding and Principles of Reason 16
Analogies of Experience 22
Kant and Hume 26
Hume’s Doubt 28
Hume’s reasons for doubting the possibility of demonstration 30
Transcendental proof and Kant’s proo