Kant's two-tiered response to scepticism.

摘要

Kant is supposed to have responded to Hume's scepticism by showing in the Critique of Pure Reason that concepts such as causality are structural components of experience and knowledge. This thesis argues that Kant's response to Hume's scepticism is best understood as two-tiered, beginning in the Critique of Pure Reason and continuing in the Critique of Judgment.;The first tier is the construction of a framework of possible experience and the second is the development of a principle of systematicity in knowledge. Traditionally the framework of possible experience has been interpreted so strongly as to shoulder most of the burden of the response to scepticism, which negatively affects not only the framework itself, but also the construal of the principle of systematicity, making it fundamentally heuristic rather than constructive. This thesis will be arguing that the framework of possible experience must be construed in a much weaker fashion, not only to resolve its own problems but to pave the way for a more solid grounding of the role of the principle of systematicity.