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- Title
The Necessity of Empirical Laws of Nature through the Lens of Kant's Dialectic.
- Authors
Spagnesi, Lorenzo
- Abstract
This article analyses a sceptical challenge resulting from metaphysical approaches to the problem of the necessity of empirical laws of nature in Kant's critical philosophy (what I shall call 'essentialist' readings). I argue that this challenge may jeopardize the purpose of empirical enquiry (and therefore the plausibility of essentialist readings), but that Kant has internal resources to address it in the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason. I show that reading this problem through the lens of the Dialectic allows us to reconcile the metaphysical question of necessitation of laws with a robust sense of empirical cognition.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 3, p413
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415423000274