Causality and Adaptation

Divisions that are standard in contemporary academic Philosophy make it difficult to recognize that Kant's Second Analogy challenges Hume on more than the concept of Causal Connection.  For, the observation that Cause-Effect is not merely a Conjunction, but an Ordered Pair is one that Hume himself insists upon, though not in the context of his Epistemological passages.  Rather, it is in the context of developing his concepts of Psychology and Morality that he asserts such an ordering--in the Passion-Reason pair, i. e. when he is adamant that Reason always follows Passion.  So, Kant's thesis actually exposes a significant inconsistency between two aspects of Hume's doctrine, an inconsistency that is not easy to detect in a curriculum that separates Epistemology from Ethics.  In any case, Evolutionism more sharply reveals a fundamental contrast between their two doctrines that is obscured by that division, as well as by the traditional Rationalism vs. Empiricism debate.  For, a cardinal concept in Evolutionism is Adaptation, within which, as has been previously discussed, Adaptation-To and Adaptation-Of can be distinguished.  Furthermore, entailed in that distinction is that between responding to an Environment, and initiating a modification of the environment.  Thus, the Hume-Kant conflict, and, in some cases, the Empiricism vs. Rationalism debate, are, in Evolutionist terms, based on the Adaptation-To vs. Adaptation-Of distinction, in which, e. g. Hume maintains that all Adaptation is Adaptation-To, while Kant proposes that Cognitive processes and at least some behavior are Adaptation-Of.  So, the introduction here of Transformal Causality, entailed in which is the modification of an Environment by an Organism, more explicitly illustrates Kant's Rationalist response to Hume's Empiricism, i. e. as a clearer example of a Causality that is an Adaptation-Of.