Knowledge, Reason, and Taste

Immanuel Kant famously said that he was awoken from his "dogmatic slumbers," and led to question the possibility of metaphysics, by David Hume''s doubts about causation. Because of this, many philosophers have viewed Hume''s influence on Kant as limited to metaphysics. More recently, some philosophers have questioned whether even Kant''s metaphysics was really motivated by Hume. In Knowledge, Reas...