Day 17: Hume & Kant

•      Immanent and Transcendent Metaphysics

•      The CPR as an Experiment

•      Hume’s Skeptical Doubts Regarding Matters of Fact

•      Hume and Kant on Causality

•      Hume and Kant on Morality

•      Read Part 1 of the FPMM

Immanent & Transcendent Metaphysics

•      Transcendent Metaphysics should not be done.  It goes beyond experience.

•      Immanent metaphysics is the only kind of metaphysics we can do; it is confined to principles grounded in experience.

The CPR as an Experiment

•      The Antinomies

•      The refutations of metaphysical proofs

•      Kant could interpret the above as evidence in support of his inversion hypothesis (i.e. his Copernican Revolution)

Hume’s Skeptical Doubts Regarding Matters of Fact

•      1: All reasoning regarding induction and cause and effect makes use of

    F – the future will resemble the past.

•      2: To prove F, one must reason to a matter of fact;

•      3: Any reasoning to a matter of fact invokes F; therefore,

•      4: Any proof of F is circular and unconvincing.

•      5: Any justification or proof of induction and cause and effect requires a justification or proof of F; therefore,

•      6: No proof or justification of induction or cause and effect can be given that is non-circular and convincing.

Hume and Kant on Causality

•      Hume’s positive position on causality and necessity (constant union or regular conjunction, and an inference of the mind)

•      Kant’s position on causality (as applying to the phenomena only, and as a condition for the possibility of experience)

Hume and Kant on Morality

•      Hume on reason and the passions

•      Kant on related matters