Kant on Causation: On the Fivefold Routes to the Principle of Causation

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Lee Brown, Charlie Kielkopf, George Pappas, and Ralf Meerbote for their helpful comments on the philosophical predecessors to some sections of this book. I would like to thank the anonymous referee for the Journal of the History of Philosophy who back in 1993 forced me to begin to come to grips with my position on the nature of the necessity involved in Kant’s causal principle. I would like to thank the reviewers from the State University of New York Press: Anonymous Reviewer A and Eric Watkins (formerly Anonymous Reviewer B) whose extensive comments on the manuscript were invaluable in my attempt to make this a better book. Portions of chapters 1 and 6 include material first published in my article “Kant’s Answer to Hume: How Kant Should Have Tried to Stand Hume’s Copy Thesis on Its Head,” in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy 8(2) 2000: 207–24. Chapters 2 through 5 include material first published in my article “Objects of Representations and Kant’s Second Analogy ,” in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 32, No. 3 (1994) 381–410. I am grateful to the editors of these journals for their kind permission to reproduce this material here. I would like to thank my colleagues at Fairfield University, because without their support over the years I do not believe this book would have ever been written. I would like to thank Tony and Helen Chirakos as well as Pierluigi and Laurie Miraglia for their friendship throughout the preparation of this book. I would like to thank my parents Paul and Myra Bayne, because without their help I would never have become more than a possible object of representations. Finally, I would like to thank my wife Laura S. Keating for her sustained philosophical as well as emotional support—without her I would be a much less happy object of representations. ix ...