Kant’s Resolution of the Third Antinomy and Contemporary Determinism

This paper examines Kant’s account of the compatibility of transcendental freedom and psychological determinism in the Third Antinomy, and confronts it with contemporary deterministic accounts of agency. I argue that Kant’s solution requires paying due attention to the nature of the empirical character as law of nature, but also relies upon a role for inner sense in agency that can be questioned in the light of contemporary empirical psychology. The paper outlines ways of complementing Kant’s solution so as to address such criticisms.