Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality

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Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality Eric Watkins
Type:	eBook
Released:	2004
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Page Count:	465
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0521543614
ISBN-13:	9780521543613

Eric Watkins argues that a grasp of Leibnizian and anti-Leibnizian thought in eighteenth-century Germany helps one to see how Kant (in his critical period) argued for causal principles that have both metaphysical and epistemological elements.Kant and the Metaphysics ... Textbook According to this interpretation, Kant's model of causality does not consist of events, but rather of substances endowed with causal powers that are exercised according to their natures and circumstances.