Answer ONE of the following sets of questions: 1. carefully explain Hume’s positive account of the origin of our idea of cause (esp Pt 2 of section VII) and why Kant is not satisfied with this account. Next, explain Kant’s solution to Hume’s skepticism about causality (be sure to demonstrate you understand Kant’s notion of experience in the course of your answer). 2. Hume sees his philosophy as a form of skepticism. First, explain to what extent Hume is skeptical about our ability to know. Next, explain the extent to which Kant sees himself as resolving Hume’s skepticism and how exactly he makes knowledge possible. 3. Hume claims that in spite of the controversy surrounding liberty and necessity, all of humankind “have ever agreed in the doctrine of liberty as well as in that of necessity” (63). First, explain Hume’s claim. Next, Explain how Kant might respond to Hume’s position given his Prolegomena (see especially pages 78-81). 4. Taking your bearings from the Third Part of the Prolegomena (the psychological ideas), carefully explain this transcendental idea and the implications it has for metaphysics. Next, select a thinker that we have read this semester and carefully craft a critique of one their fundamental notions from a Kantian perspective (in relation to what you articulated in the first part).
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