Teleological Judgment: Between Technique and Nature

L Illetterati - Kant's Theory of Biology, 2014 - degruyter.com
In Kant's philosophy, teleology is an essential topic and plays a fundamental role in the
different areas of his thought. In this paper, I will only deal with the role teleology plays with …

The Inexplicability of Kant's Naturzweck: Kant on Teleology, Explanation and Biology

J Kreines - 2005 - degruyter.com
Kant's position on teleology and biology is neither inconsistent nor obsolete; his arguments
have some surprising and enduring philosophical strengths. But Kant's account will appear …

Kant on biological teleology: Towards a two-level interpretation

M Quarfood - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C …, 2006 - Elsevier
According to Kant's Critique of the power of judgment, teleological considerations are
unavoidable for conceptualizing organisms. Does this mean that teleology is more than …

Kant's biological teleology and its philosophical significance

H Ginsborg - A companion to Kant, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Kant's Critique of Teleological Judgment, the second part of his Critique of Judgment, is
concerned with the following question: to what extent is it legitimate to think of nature in …

Kant's critique of teleology in biological explanation: Antinomy and teleology

P McLaughlin - 1990 - philpapers.org
Abstract Kant's Critique of Teleological Judgment is read as a reflection on philosophical
methodological problems that arose through the constitution of an independent science of …

Biological purposiveness and analogical reflection

A Breitenbach - Kant's theory of biology, 2014 - degruyter.com
In the “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment”, Kant claims that in the realm of living
nature we encounter phenomena that appear to display a peculiar purposiveness. The …

Kant's Teleology and the Problems of Bioethics

S Martynova - Con-textos Kantianos: International Journal of …, 2020 - dialnet.unirioja.es
One of the issues with which bioethics is concerned is defining the limits of the organism's
transformations by technology in order for humanity to avoid evil. Kant's teleological power …

The'purposiveness' of life: Kant's critique of natural teleology

S Lotfi - The Monist, 2010 - JSTOR
Natural teleology, 1 the subject that deals with questions about the ends (or purpose) of
nature, is a subject that occupies much of Kant's attention in his later critical philosophy …

The Underlying Teleology of the First Critique

B Dörflinger - Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, 1995 - pdcnet.org
At first sight, all of the most important subjects of teleological examination seem to be
enumerated and analyzed in the second part of Kant's Third Critique. In the Critique of …

Kant's Teleology, the Concept of the Organism, and the Context of Contemporary Biology

G Toepfer - Final Causes and Teleological Explanation, 2011 - brill.com
For Kant, the main aim of teleology in nature is to identify or to segregate as a particular
class of objects certain types of causal systems, specifically, systems of interdependent …