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  • Watkins on Kant’s Laws of Nature

  • Janum Sethi
  • Journal:
    Kantian Review / Volume 26 / Issue 2 / June 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 March 2021, pp. 307-314
    Print publication:
    June 2021
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  • I discuss three sets of worries concerning Watkins’ account of laws of nature in Kant on Laws. First, I argue contra Watkins that Kant’s laws of nature do not depend on acts of prescription in any literal sense. Second, I question how his generic conception of laws applies to empirical laws of nature and suggest that the worries about unknowability or contingency that he raises for contemporary alternatives may equally arise for empirical laws on Kant’s account. Finally, I discuss his claim that Kant’s a priori laws depend on the immutability of human cognitive capacities and ask how this immutability should be understood.