Kant's Theory of Causation and Its Eighteenth-Century German Background
Eric Watkins (ed. and Trans.), Kant's ''Critique of Pure Reason'': Background Source Materials and Eric Watkins, Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10697862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Chignell, Derk Pereboom (0000-0002-3891-3417) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 565-591 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-2010-014 |
| OpenAlex | W2017001219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay highlights the important contributions Watkins's books have made to our understanding of theories about causation developed in eighteenth-century German philosophy and by Kant in particular. Watkins provides a convincing argument that central to Kant's theory of causation is the notion of a real ground or causal power that is non-Humean (since it doesn't reduce to regularities or counterfactual dependencies among events or states) and non-Leibnizean because it doesn't reduce to logical or conceptual relations. However, we raise questions about Watkins's more specific claims that Kant completely rejects a model on which the first relatum of a phenomenal causal relation is an event and that he maintains that real grounds are metaphysically and not just epistemically indeterminate
Argument (complex analysis) · Causation · Counterfactual conditional · Counterfactual thinking · Epistemology · German · Metaphysics · Relation (database) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |