The concurrence of transcendental freedom and natural causality in Kantian philosophy
- Fernando García Martín
Abstract
The Third Antinomy of the KrV is a good example of the tension that exists in modern culture between freedom and natural causality. Kant proceeds to resolve the conflict between the two by distinguishing between phenomenon and thing-in-itself. But there will always be a doubt as to whether this distinction will not consist of an ad hoc attempt to save the reality of freedom from the deterministic attacks to which it is subjected and which lead many to subscribe to a compatibilist concept of it. This article outlines an interpretation of the Kantian category of natural causality in terms of the regulative principle of scientific research that allows the defense of an ontological space for the reality of freedom without having to adopt an incompatible position and be at the same time consistent with the results that modern quantum research offers us.
Keywords
Kant, causality, freedom, determinism, quantum physics
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