'Naturalism'is the aspiration of contemporary philosophy of biology, and Kant simply cannot
be refashioned into a naturalist. Instead, epistemological 'deflation'was the decisive feature …

Kant's teleology as presented in the Critique of Judgment is commonly interpreted in relation
to the late eighteenth-century biological research of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. In the …

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 …

This paper distinguishes two ways in which Kant's ideas concerning the relation between
teleology and biological organization have been taken up in contemporary philosophy of …

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 …

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 …

A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the
concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology. Understanding Purpose is an …

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 …

During the last twenty years, Kant's theory of biology has increasingly attracted the attention
of scholars and developed into a field which is growing rapidly in importance within Kant …

This paper proposes a basic revision of the understanding of teleology in biological
sciences. Since Kant, it has become customary to view purposiveness in organisms as a …