
Kant's Copernican Revolution
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Concept of Causation Is Not Valid for Kant An
Causation is a real central case for kant an. It's at the heart of the critique of pure reason. Hume was an empiricist and thought that everything was derived from experience. But if you take that approach, it emerges hume thinks that the concept of causation lacks any kind of objective validity. So Kant wants to figure out how could this be. And he takes a lead from hume by suggesting that it is part of the mind's structure,. If something happens, there must be something that caused it to happen.
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