Abstract
Because of the idealizations involved in the ideas of a total state of the world and of all the laws of nature, the thesis of all-encompassing determinism is unverifiable. Our everyday non-scientific talk of causation does not imply determinism; nor is it needed for the Kantian argument for a general causal framework as a condition for experience of an objective world. Determinism is at best a regulative ideal for science, something to be approached but never reached.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 431-450 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Philosophy |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 10 Jan 2014 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 2014 |