Kant, Hume and Causality

David Hume (1711-1776) was a famous British philosopher who extended the empiricism of formerly philosophers like John Locke and developed a radical skepticism .He argued that every prediction about the unobserved is uncertain. And rejected the possibility of certain knowledge. According to his view all our knowledge is based on our sense expressions. We make inferences (deductions) from these sense expressions, but these inferences are a result of our habit. Although Immanuel Kant (1774-1804) maintained …

…by the concept of causality. As an example, in order to experience the flowering of this azalea as an event, I must not only perceive the blossoms as they now appear but must also regard them as merely the present consequence of a succession of prior organic developments. Thus, Kant responded to Hume's skepticism by maintaining that the concept of cause is one of the synthetic conditions we determine for ourselves prior to all experience.