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Kant famously confessed that Hume's treatment of cause and effect woke him from his dogmatic slumber. According to Hume, the concept of cause does not arise through reason, but through force of habit. Kant believes this can be avoided through the development of a revolutionary new cognitive framework as presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. Focusing on the Second Analogy and other important texts from the first Critique, as well as texts from the Critique of Judgment, the author discusses the nature of Kant's causal principle, the nature of his proof for this principle, and the status of his intended proof. Bayne argues that the key to understanding Kant's proof is his discussion of objects of representations, and that it is his investigation into the requirements for an event's being an object of representations that enables him to develop his proof of the causal principle.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Relationships Concepts and intuitions Kant's introduction to the problem of the Schematism and his introductory solution Kant's true task in the Schematism Leibniz Hume Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and applicability The importance of the Schematism A problem with Kant's account of the Schematism The transcendental deduction and the principles Principles of Understanding and Principles of Reason Analogies of Experience Kant and Hume Hume's Doubt Hume's reasons for doubting the possibility of demonstration Transcendental proof and Kant's proof of the causal principle 2. The Causal Principle The principle of the second analogy Evaluation of Possible Interpretations of the Formulation of the Causal Principle The Same-Cause-Same-Effect thesis The Every-Event-Some-Cause thesis 3. The Fivefold Routes to the Principle of Causation Possible Argument Strategies Evaluation of Argument Strategies The Veridical Strategy The Event/Object Strategy The Event/Event Strategy The Justification Strategy 4. The Irreversibility Argument Lovejoy's Position Strawson's Position Bennett's Position Melnick's Position Guyer's Position The house, the ship, and irreversibility 5. Objects of Representations The principle of the Second Analogy Subject to a rule Objects of representations and being subject to a rule Irreversibility revisited: Are successions of appearances' subject to a rule? An example for the official definition Successions of appearances must be subject to a rule Problems and Defense The requirements for a succession of appearances being subject to a rule Are my requirements too strong? Are my requirements too weak? Repeatability Necessary Order Textual Worries Repeatability Necessary Order and Necessity Is this really a causal theory? 6. Hume Revisited A brief review Transcendental proof and the mistake strategy A problem with Kant's transcendental proof and mistake strategy The implications of this problem Turning the copy thesis on its head Problem: Drawing the distinction between a beginning of existence and a cause of existence Final Status of Kant's Answer to Hume Conclusion On the Guide(s) to the Discovery of the Route to the Principle of Causation The house, the ship, and irreversibility The nature of the principle of the Second Analogy Synthetic and a priori Constitutive versus regulative Objects of representations Object of Experience Strategies Bibliography Index

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