While ruling out direct intervention by God in the course of nature, Kant leaves open the possibility that there are some phenomena that are subject to transcendental principles without following the laws of nature known to us.
Brandon C. Look was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD. Since 1995, he has been a Professor at the University of Kentucky. He has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to
Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.
