[
	{
		"id": "RMCSKSR5",
		"type": "chapter",
		"abstract": "Kant famously attempted to “answer” what he took to beHume’s skeptical view of causality, most explicitly in theProlegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783); and, becausecausality, for Kant, is a central example of a category or pureconcept of the understanding, his relationship to Hume on this topicis central to his philosophy as a whole. Moreover, becauseHume’s famous discussion of causality and induction is equallycentral to his philosophy, understanding the relationship between thetwo philosophers on this issue is crucial for a proper understandingof modern philosophy more generally. Yet ever since Kant offered hisresponse to Hume the topic has been subject to intense controversy.There is no consensus, of course, over whether Kant’s responsesucceeds, but there is no more consensus about what this response issupposed to be. There has been sharp disagreement concerningKant’s conception of causality, as well as Hume’s, and,accordingly, there has also been controversy over whether the twoconceptions really significantly differ. There has even beendisagreement concerning whether Hume’s conception of causalityand induction is skeptical at all. We shall not discuss thesecontroversies in detail; rather, we shall concentrate on presentingone particular perspective on this very complicated set of issues. Weshall clearly indicate, however, where especially controversial pointsof interpretation arise and briefly describe some of the mainalternatives. (Most of this discussion will be confined to footnotes,where we shall also present further, more specialized details.)",
		"container-title": "The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
		"edition": "Fall 2024",
		"publisher": "Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University",
		"source": "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
		"title": "Kant and Hume on Causality",
		"URL": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2024/entries/kant-hume-causality/",
		"author": [
			{
				"family": "De Pierris",
				"given": "Graciela"
			},
			{
				"family": "Friedman",
				"given": "Michael"
			}
		],
		"editor": [
			{
				"family": "Zalta",
				"given": "Edward N."
			},
			{
				"family": "Nodelman",
				"given": "Uri"
			}
		],
		"accessed": {
			"date-parts": [
				[
					"2024",
					11,
					6
				]
			]
		},
		"issued": {
			"date-parts": [
				[
					"2024"
				]
			]
		}
	}
]