The Necessity of Empirical Laws of Nature through the Lens of Kant’s Dialectic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20510394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorenzo Spagnesi (0000-0003-2483-909X, Universität Trier, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 413-428 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Kantian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1369415423000274 |
| OpenAlex | W4386120748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article analyses a sceptical challenge resulting from metaphysical approaches to the problem of the necessity of empirical laws of nature in Kant’s critical philosophy (what I shall call ‘essentialist’ readings). I argue that this challenge may jeopardize the purpose of empirical enquiry (and therefore the plausibility of essentialist readings), but that Kant has internal resources to address it in the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason . I show that reading this problem through the lens of the Dialectic allows us to reconcile the metaphysical question of necessitation of laws with a robust sense of empirical cognition
Dialectic · Empirical evidence · Epistemology · Essentialism · Metaphysics · Skepticism · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
Kant’s Ongoing Relevance for Philosophy of Science
Necessity for finite rational minds– Kant on empirical nomic necessity and the conceptual purposiveness of nature
Natures, ideas, and essentialism in Kant
Kant’s regulative metaphysics of particular laws of nature
Kant's Idealized Imputation of the Propensity to Evil in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics
Critique of Pure Reason
Lectures on Logic
Lectures on Metaphysics
A rule‐based account of the regulative use of reason in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
The Systematic Unity of Reason and Empirical Truth in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Kant on cognition and knowledge
Rehabilitating the regulative use of reason
Kant on the Laws of Nature
The problem of grounding natural modality in Kant's account of empirical laws of nature
Hypotheses in Kant's philosophy of science
Kant’s Modal Metaphysics
Prescribing laws to nature. Part I. Newton, the pre-Critical Kant, and three problems about the lawfulness of nature
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |