Kant's theory of biology
Biographical note: Ina Goy, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego, USA.
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin [u.a.]
De Gruyter
2014
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| Series: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Philosophie
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| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110225792 |
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Ina Goy and Eric Watkins |
Table of Contents:
- Citations and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Kant's Theory of Biology and Research on Nature in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Metaphysics and Physiology in Kant's Attitude towards Theories of Preformation; Epigenetic Theories: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant; Organisms and Metaphysics: Kant's First Herder Review; Part II. KanT's Theory of Biology-Commentaries on the ""Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment"" and Other Writings; Teleological Judgment: Between Technique and Nature; Kant’s Account of Biological Causation; Nature in General as a System of Ends
- Biological Purposiveness and Analogical ReflectionMechanical Explanation in the “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgmentâ€; The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment: What It Is and How It Is Solved; Purposiveness, Necessity, and Contingency; Kant’s Theory of Biology and the Argument from Design; Freedom, Happiness, and Nature: Kant’s Moral Teleology (CPJ ÂÂ83â€"4, 86â€"7); The Role of the Organism in the Transcendental Philosophy of Kant’s Opus postumum; Part III. Kant's Theory of Biology in the Present Time; Oughts without Intentions: A Kantian Approach to Biological Functions
- Kant, Polanyi, and Molecular BiologyBibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; Contributors