Hello, my name is Ray. This revised version of my Philopsychy Society Member's Profile was submitted on July 5, 2003. Amateur philosopher. Artist. My special interest relates directly to my own work, Kant's challenge, as voiced most succinctly and clearly in his "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic." You can contact me by e-mail at liikanen@telus.net, or by conventional post at:
#101-420 Ash Street
New Westminster, B.C.
V3M 3M9
Canada
My WWW home page is located at: http://www.causalargument.com.
Something I've written that might be of some interest to you is called The Universe, Its Origin & End, Part One: Causal Argument for the Existence of a Supreme Being, or: Kant's Challenge Answered, or: The Refutation of Empiricism. Causal Argument (An a priori, universally and objectively valid system of metaphysics, answering Kant's challenge for a priori, certainty in metaphysics). It is self-published (printed and softbound). Renaissance Press, 2003. It is available in computerized form at: http://www.causalargument.com
Other Society members are invited to contact me if they are interested in trading their writings for any of the above.
Finally, just so you can get to know me a little, here's something special I'd like you to know:
I have worked on answering Kant's Challenge for the past 30 years (plus), but not by skirting around Kant's critical demands, which were intended to redirect metaphysics. If you're interested in understanding Kant's critical demands in relation to what Kant terms 'a science of metaphysics,' then the Causal Argument I've written may help. The Causal Argument falls in line with Kant's critical demands for a priori certainty, as opposed to a posteriori uncertainty. Though Kant admitted in his "Prolegomena" that he did not have the ability to think how a causal series (connection between cause and effect) could be thought out, a priori. The Causal Argument indeed presents a causal process, a priori; thus, it answers Kant's Challenge. Kant repudiates any system that is not objectively valid, a priori; and this is precisely why Kant dismisses every metaphysical system that is thought out without any consideration for the demands Kant believes any metaphysician must adopt as a standard, for the sake of metaphysics (which however, even after Kant, went on with the same old concoctions as before -ie., Hegel). The Causal Argument is a strict, rational, pure system of philosophy (pure in that it is a priori), that could have been thought out by anyone, including Kant, if he had not blocked his progress with the first antinomy, which he asks his 'critical reader' to lend his 'chief attention' [Pro. 340-341]. The way the Causal Argument begins answering Kant's Challenge is by dismissing grounds upon which the first antinomy rests (it is grounded upon common sense, which Kant rules out in metaphysical judgments). If you wish to understand Kant on an even deeper level than possible just by reading his critical philosophy, read the Causal Argument, and ask yourselves the questions that the reader is asked to ask themselves in its Preliminary. The Appendix will be set up at the site shortly, showing the connection between the Causal Argument, and Kant's critical philosophy.