Steven M. Bayne is Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Fairfield University.

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