Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
A Note on Citations and Translations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
I /
CAUSALITY IN CONTEXT......Page 34
Introduction......Page 36
Leibniz and the Many Faces of
Pre-established Harmony......Page 37
Leibniz on the Mind-Body Problem in Descartes......Page 39
Leibniz's
Objections to Occasionalism......Page 41
Leibniz's
Positive Case for Pre-established Harmony......Page 45
Pre-established Harmony in the Context of Leibniz's
Broader Metaphysics......Page 47
A Radical Shift in Context: From 17th-Century Europe to
18th-Century Germany......Page 51
Pre-established Harmony in Wolff......Page 58
Knutzen’s Leibnizian Arguments
for Physical Influx......Page 63
The Argument from vis motrix......Page 67
The Argument from Impenetrability......Page 73
The Argument from the Simplicity of (Divine) Action......Page 76
The Argument from Probability......Page 80
Objections and Replies......Page 81
Baumgarten
and Meier: A New Case for Pre-established Harmony......Page 86
Baumgarten and the Perfection of the World......Page 87
Meier......Page 91
Crusius
and Fundamental Powers......Page 94
Basic Ontological Concepts: Powers, Grounds, and the Possibility of Freedom......Page 95
The
"Real" World......Page 98
Mind-Body Interaction and the Power to Move......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 106
Introduction......Page 114
Kant’s Concept of Force in the TRUE ESTIMATION and PHYSICAL MONADOLOGY......Page 117
The NOVA DILUCIDATIO and the
Principle of Succession......Page 125
Is Pre-established Harmony Consistent with Change?......Page 126
Three Arguments......Page 127
Kant and Wolff on the Nature of Grounds......Page 131
Kant and Leibniz on Grounds and Explaining Change......Page 138
Kant's
Positive Account of Change......Page 142
Causal Connections plus Changing Relations......Page 144
Can God Cause Change?......Page 147
Must the Connection between Substances Be Mutual Interaction?......Page 149
Can a Substance Cause Changes in Itself?......Page 151
The NOVA DILUCIDATIO and
the Principle of Coexistence......Page 153
Leibniz, Crusius, and the "Mere Existence"
of Substance......Page 154
God's
Role in the Interaction of Substances......Page 162
Physical Influx, Pre-established Harmony, and Occasionalism......Page 168
The Implication of Hume's
Position......Page 173
Real versus Logical Grounds......Page 175
Real Grounds as a Response to Hume......Page 179
New Developments in the Inaugural Dissertation......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 190
II /
CAUSALITY IN THE CRITICAL PERIOD......Page 194
The Context of the Second
and Third Analogies......Page 198
The Analogies within the
"Analytic of Principles"......Page 199
The Problem of Time-Determination......Page 201
The Unity of Time......Page 204
The Status of the Claims: Analytic or Epistemological?......Page 209
Preliminaries......Page 216
The Introductory Argument......Page 220
The Main Argument......Page 222
The Argument
of the Third Analogy......Page 230
The Introductory Argument......Page 231
The Main Argument......Page 232
The Meaning of "Thoroughgoing"
Mutual Interaction......Page 240
Conclusion......Page 242
Introduction......Page 243
Humean and Kantian Events......Page 245
Event-Event Models of Causality......Page 250
Simple Event-Event Models......Page 251
Complex Event-Event Models......Page 252
Indeterminate Grounds, Joint Determination, and Causal Powers......Page 256
Simultaneous Causation and the Principle of Continuity......Page 265
Causal Powers, Asymmetry, and Activity......Page 270
Making Sense of Activity, or the
“Causality of the Cause”......Page 278
Architectonic Considerations......Page 279
Scientific
Considerations......Page 281
Self-consciousness......Page 285
Implications of Kant's
Model for the Second and Third Analogies......Page 295
The
"Critical Turn" and the Limits of Metaphysics......Page 304
Conclusion......Page 309
III /
CAUSALITY AND CONSEQUENCES......Page 312
Introduction......Page 314
The Third Antinomy......Page 317
The Thesis and Antithesis Arguments......Page 318
The Resolution......Page 324
Things in Themselves and Appearances: Epistemological
or Ontological?......Page 330
The Grounding Thesis......Page 338
Grounding and the Epistemological Interpretation......Page 339
Grounding and Compatibilism......Page 342
Impersonal and Personal Facts......Page 352
Freedom
and Causality......Page 356
Consistency......Page 357
Textual Troubles?......Page 360
Phenomenal Substances and Noumenal Causality......Page 362
Determination and the Problems of Regress and Location......Page 367
Conclusion......Page 373
Introduction......Page 375
The Historical Question of Kant’s Reply
to Hume......Page 376
German Reactions to Hume: Sulzer and Tetens......Page 377
Kant and
Hume in the Critique......Page 386
Kant’s Explicit Remarks about Hume in the Critique......Page 387
Kant’s Reply to Hume......Page 394
Contemporary Considerations......Page 402
The Metaphysics of Causality......Page 403
Laws of Nature......Page 413
Free Will and Determinism......Page 421
Systematic Metaphysics......Page 432
Conclusion......Page 434
Conclusion......Page 436
Primary Literature......Page 444
Secondary Literature......Page 447
Index......Page 454