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Ideas for 'works', 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Explanatory Coherence'

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
22052 Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant]
8256 Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law [Kant, by McDowell]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
5591 Reason must assume as necessary that everything in a living organism has a proportionate purpose [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
8660 There are potential infinities (never running out), but actual infinity is incoherent [Aristotle, by Friend]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
12058 Aristotle's matter can become any other kind of matter [Aristotle, by Wiggins]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
5615 Extension and impenetrability together make the concept of matter [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
14560 A ball denting a pillow seems like simultaneous cause and effect, though time identifies which is cause [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
5545 Appearances give rules of what usually happens, but cause involves necessity [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
9755 The concept of causality entails laws; random causality is a contradiction [Kant, by Korsgaard]
17709 We judge causation by relating events together by some law of nature [Kant, by Mares]
5562 Experience is only possible because we subject appearances to causal laws [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
5523 Causation obviously involves necessity, so it cannot just be frequent association [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
19669 For Kant the laws must be necessary, because contingency would destroy representation [Kant, by Meillassoux]
19672 Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant]