Causal Powers, Hume’s Early German Critics, and Kant’s Response to Hume

dc.contributor.author	Chance, Brian
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-26T22:54:06Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-26T22:54:06Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.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.
dc.description.peerreview	Yes	en_US
dc.description.peerreviewnotes	Journal practices double-blind peer review	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/kant-2013-0014
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/317561
dc.title	Causal Powers, Hume’s Early German Critics, and Kant’s Response to Hume	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Philosophy	en_US

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