Causal Powers, Hume’s Early German Critics, and Kant’s Response to Hume
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Brian A. Chance
Abstract: Eric Watkins has argued on philosophical, textual, and historical grounds that Kant’s account of causation in the first Critique should not be read as an attempt to refute Hume’s account of causation. In this paper, I challenge the arguments for Watkins’ claim. Specifically, I argue (1) that Kant’s philosophical commitments, even on Watkins’ reading, are not obvious obstacles to refuting Hume, (2) that textual evidence from the Disciple of Pure Reason suggests Kant conceived of his account of causation as such a refutation, and (3) that none of Hume’s early German critics provided responses to this account that would have satisfied Kant. Watkins’ reading of Kant’s account of causation is thus more compatible with traditional views about Kant’s relationship to Hume than Watkins believes.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Burkhard Tuschling (1937–2012)
- Kant’s 1768 attack on Leibniz’ conception of space
- L’ ‘idéal de la raison pure’ et la fracture du fonctionnement ontothéologique du possible dans la philosophie critique de Kant
- Die Weltgeschichte im Kontext der Kritik der Urteilskraft
- Causal Powers, Hume’s Early German Critics, and Kant’s Response to Hume
- Buchbesprechungen
- XI Kant Readings
- In Memoriam: Gary Banham † (1965–2013)
- Mitgliederversammlung der Kant-Gesellschaft
