Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant

Kant: The Second Analogy

Does the Second Analogy aim to establish that causality governs objects of ordinary experience, or only scientific conceptions of the world?

Essay of no more than 2,500 words.

Primary sources

• Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Pure Reason.Analogies of Experience, A176/B218–A226/B274, with particular focus on the Second Analogy, A189/B222–A211/B257.

Secondary sources

• Allison, Henry E. 2004. The Analogies of Experience, pp. 229–274 in Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Publisher
• Friedman, Michael 1992. Causal Laws and the Foundations of Natural Science, pp. 161–199 in The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Paul Guyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Longuenesse, Béatrice 2005. Kant on Causality: What Was He Trying to Prove?, pp. 231–261 in Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics, ed. Christia Mercer and Eileen O’Neill. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Watkins, Eric 2005. Kant’s Second and Third Analogies of Experience, pp. 185–229 in Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI

General introductions

• Gardner, Sebastian 1999. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason. London: Routledge.
• Guyer, Paul (ed.) 1992. The Cambridge Companion to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI
• Guyer, Paul (ed.) 2010. The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI