Buchdahl Gerd Causality Causal Laws And Scientific Theory In The Philosophy Of Kant英文电子书.pdf

Buchdahl, Gerd, CAUSALITY, CAUSAL LAWS AND SCIENTIFIC THEORY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF KANT , British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 16 (1965:May-1966:Feb.) p.187 CAUSALITY, CAUSAL LAWS AND SCIENTIFIC THEORY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF KANT俞 GERD BUCHDAHL IT is well known that in the Second Analogy Kan. purports to give a proof (transcendental proof) ofthe causal principle , which he variously denominates ‘ Principle of Production (1st edn.) and ‘ Principle of Succession in Time , in accordance with the Law of Causality (2nd edn.); the actual statement ofthe principle in the first edition being: Everything that happens , that is , begins to be , presupposes something upon which it follows according to a rule. The second edition statement runs: All alterations take place in conformity with the law of connection of cause and effect. (AI89=B232)1 It may be worth while to recall Kants definition of a causal relation , or ‘ the concept of cause \(Reference to the chapter on ‘ Schematism (AI44=BI83) shows that this is actually the definition of the schematised concept, the category being the concept of depen- dence , or ground and consequence.) At A90=BI22 , this runs: The concept of cause . . . signifies a special kind of synthesis, whereby upon som