Teleology and the organism: Kant's controversial legacy for contemporary biology

A Gambarotto, A Nahas - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Artifacts and levels of abstraction

M Chirimuuta - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this article is to show how the comparison or analogy with artifacts (ie,
systems engineered by humans) is foundational for the idea that complex neuro-cognitive …

Nature and agency: Towards a post-Kantian naturalism

A Gambarotto, A Nahas - Topoi, 2023 - Springer
We outline an alternative to both scientific and liberal naturalism which attempts to reconcile
Sellars' apparently conflicting commitments to the scientific accountability of human nature …

[图书][B] The vicissitudes of nature: From Spinoza to Freud

RJ Bernstein - 2022 - books.google.com
The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our
time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating …

[图书][B] Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World: A Transcendental Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment

I Geiger - 2022 - books.google.com
" Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), the third and last of his critical works, has
been recognized as a work of great philosophical import from its first reception; and it …

[图书][B] Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race

D Baumeister - 2022 - books.google.com
While Immanuel Kant's account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account
of human animality (Thierheit) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant's …

[HTML][HTML] Preformation vs. epigenesis: inspiration and haunting within and outside contemporary philosophy of biology

E Casetta - Rivista di estetica, 2020 - journals.openedition.org
The 17th and 18th centuries were the theatre of the fight between two main theories
concerning the development of organisms: preformationism (or preformism) and …

Life, concept and purpose: the organism as a connection in Kant's critical philosophy and Georges Canguilhem's historical epistemology

G Gandolfi - Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology, 2023 - Springer
The focus on the concept of organism, considered as a totality, is a common feature both in
the work of Georges Canguilhem and Immanuel Kant. Given Canguilhem's strong Kantian …

[PDF][PDF] Vitalism and the Problem of Individuation: Another Look at Bergson's Élan Vital

TS Posteraro - Vitalism and its legacy in twentieth century life …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Abstract Mikhail Bakhtin's 1926 essay,“Contemporary Vitalism,” includes Bergson alongside
Driesch in a short list of “the most published representatives of vitalism in Western Europe,” …

[图书][B] Las vicisitudes de la naturaleza: De Spinoza a Freud

R Bernstein - 2024 - books.google.com
Ante pandemias devastadoras, climas extremos y la destrucción de ecosistemas, parece
evidente que la relación entre los seres humanos y la naturaleza debería estar en el centro …