Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge
Document Type
Article
Department
Philosophy (CMC)
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Consider the laws of nature—the laws of physics, for example. One familiar philosophical question about laws is this: what is it to be a law of nature? More specifically, is a law of nature a regularity, or a generalization stating a regularity? Or is it something else? Another philosophical question is: how, and to what extent, can we have knowledge of the laws of nature? I am interested here in Kant's answers to these questions, and their place within his broader theoretical philosophy during the period spanning from the first to the third Critique.
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DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0378.2008.00322.x
Recommended Citation
Kreines, James. "Kant on the Laws of Nature: Laws, Necessitation, and the Limitation of Our Knowledge." European Journal of Philosophy 17.4 (2008): 527–558.
