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

Intro -- Kant on Causation -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Relationships -- CONCEPTS AND INTUITIONS -- Kant's introduction to the problem of the Schematism and his introductory solution -- Kant's true task in the Schematism -- Leibniz -- Hume -- Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and applicability -- The importance of the Schematism -- A problem with Kant's account of the Schematism -- THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION AND THE PRINCIPLES -- PRINCIPLES OF UNDERSTANDING AND PRINCIPLES OF REASON -- ANALOGIES OF EXPERIENCE -- KANT AND HUME -- Hume's Doubt -- Hume's reasons for doubting the possibility of demonstration -- Transcendental proof and Kant's proof of the causal principle -- 2. The Causal Principle -- THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SECOND ANALOGY -- EVALUATION OF POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE FORMULATION OF THE CAUSAL PRINCIPLE -- The Same-Cause-Same-Effect thesis -- The Every-Event-Some-Cause thesis -- 3. The Fivefold Routes to the Principle of Causation -- POSSIBLE ARGUMENT STRATEGIES -- EVALUATION OF ARGUMENT STRATEGIES -- The Veridical Strategy -- The Event/Object Strategy -- The Event/Event Strategy -- The Justification Strategy -- 4. The Irreversibility Argument -- LOVEJOY'S POSITION -- STRAWSON'S POSITION -- BENNETT'S POSITION -- MELNICK'S POSITION -- GUYER'S POSITION -- THE HOUSE, THE SHIP, AND IRREVERSIBILITY -- 5. Objects of Representations -- THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SECOND ANALOGY -- SUBJECT TO A RULE -- OBJECTS OF REPRESENTATIONS AND BEING SUBJECT TO A RULE -- IRREVERSIBILITY REVISITED: ARE SUCCESSIONS OF APPEARANCES SUBJECT TO A RULE? -- AN EXAMPLE FOR THE OFFICIAL DEFINITION -- SUCCESSIONS OF APPEARANCES MUST BE SUBJECT TO A RULE -- PROBLEMS AND DEFENSE -- The requirements for a succession of appearances' being subject to a rule -- Are my requirements too strong? -- Are my requirements too weak? -- Repeatability -- Necessary Order.

Textual Worries -- Repeatability -- Necessary Order and Necessity -- Is this really a causal theory? -- 6. Hume Revisited -- A BRIEF REVIEW -- TRANSCENDENTAL PROOF AND THE MISTAKE STRATEGY -- A PROBLEM WITH KANT'S TRANSCENDENTAL PROOF AND MISTAKE STRATEGY -- THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS PROBLEM -- TURNING THE COPY THESIS ON ITS HEAD -- PROBLEM: DRAWING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN A BEGINNING OF EXISTENCE AND A CAUSE OF EXISTENCE -- FINAL STATUS OF KANT'S ANSWER TO HUME -- Conclusion -- ON THE GUIDE(S) TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROUTE TO THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSATION -- The house, the ship, and irreversibility -- The nature of the principle of the Second Analogy -- Synthetic and a priori -- Constitutive versus regulative -- Objects of representations -- OBJECT OF EXPERIENCE STRATEGIES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- W.

An in-depth examination of the nature of Kant's causal principle.

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