ABSTRACT
According to Immanuel Kant, at any moment of time, the entire world at that time and the laws of nature together determine a unique future, i.e. causal determinism obtains. Kant gives his official reconciliation of the apparent incompatibility of causal determinism and human free will in his discussion of the Third Antinomy in the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant’s primary question throughout the resolution of the Third Antinomy is ‘whether freedom is completely excluded by this inviolable rule, or whether an effect, notwithstanding its being thus determined in accordance with nature, may not at the same time be grounded in freedom’. Merely cautioning against taking certain paths to interpreting Kant’s compatibilism, however, does not also show us which path to take instead, or even if there is a path which leads to a coherent reconstruction of his view.
