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Temporal Relations vs. Logical Reduction: A Phenomenal Theory of Causality

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Author	Papa Grimaldi, Alba
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Kant, in various parts of his treatment of causality, refers to determinism or the principle of sufficient reason as an inescapable principle. In fact, in the Second Analogy we find the elements to reconstruct a purely phenomenal determinism as a logical and tautological truth. I endeavour in this article to gather these elements into an organic theory of phenomenal causality and then show, in the third section, with a specific argument which I call the “paradox of phenomenal observation”, that this phenomenal determinism is the only rational approach to causality because any logico-reductivistic approach, such as the Humean one, would destroy the temporal order and so the very possibility to talk of a causal relation. I also believe that, all things said, Kant did not achieve a much greater comprehension of the problem than Hume did, in his theory of causality, for he did not free a phenomenal approach from the impasse of reductivism as his reflections on “simultaneous causation” and “vanishing quantities” indeed show, and this I will argue in Sect. 4 of this article.
Starting Page	339
Ending Page	358
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	11221151
Journal	Axiomathes
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728390
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-04-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Causality Kant Simultaneous causation Paradox of phenomenal observation Cause and effect Hume secret powers Philosophy Ontology Linguistics (general) Cognitive Psychology Logic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Mathematics

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