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Kant's Theory of Biology / Ina Goy, Eric Watkins.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110225785
  • 9783110372403
  • 9783110225792
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Citations and Abbreviations -- Introduction / Goy, Ina / Watkins, Eric -- 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 / Fisher, Mark -- Epigenetic Theories: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant / Goy, Ina -- Organisms and Metaphysics: Kant's First Herder Review / Zuckert, Rachel -- 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 / Illetterati, Luca -- Kant's Account of Biological Causation / Šustar, Predrag -- Nature in General as a System of Ends / Watkins, Eric -- Biological Purposiveness and Analogical Reflection / Breitenbach, Angela -- Mechanical Explanation in the "Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment" / McLaughlin, Peter -- The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment: What It Is and How It Is Solved / Quarfood, Marcel -- Purposiveness, Necessity, and Contingency / Huneman, Philippe -- Kant's Theory of Biology and the Argument from Design / Goy, Ina -- Freedom, Happiness, and Nature: Kant's Moral Teleology (CPJ §§83-4, 86-7) / Guyer, Paul -- The Role of the Organism in the Transcendental Philosophy of Kant's Opus postumum / Onnasch, Ernst-Otto -- Part III. Kant's Theory of Biology in the Present Time -- Oughts without Intentions: A Kantian Approach to Biological Functions / Ginsborg, Hannah -- Kant, Polanyi, and Molecular Biology / Roth, Siegfried -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors
Summary: 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 studies. The volume presents fifteen interpretative essays written by experts working in the field, covering topics from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biological theories, the development of the philosophy of biology in Kant's writings, the theory of organisms in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, and current perspectives on the teleology of nature.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Citations and Abbreviations -- Introduction / Goy, Ina / Watkins, Eric -- 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 / Fisher, Mark -- Epigenetic Theories: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant / Goy, Ina -- Organisms and Metaphysics: Kant's First Herder Review / Zuckert, Rachel -- 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 / Illetterati, Luca -- Kant's Account of Biological Causation / Šustar, Predrag -- Nature in General as a System of Ends / Watkins, Eric -- Biological Purposiveness and Analogical Reflection / Breitenbach, Angela -- Mechanical Explanation in the "Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment" / McLaughlin, Peter -- The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment: What It Is and How It Is Solved / Quarfood, Marcel -- Purposiveness, Necessity, and Contingency / Huneman, Philippe -- Kant's Theory of Biology and the Argument from Design / Goy, Ina -- Freedom, Happiness, and Nature: Kant's Moral Teleology (CPJ §§83-4, 86-7) / Guyer, Paul -- The Role of the Organism in the Transcendental Philosophy of Kant's Opus postumum / Onnasch, Ernst-Otto -- Part III. Kant's Theory of Biology in the Present Time -- Oughts without Intentions: A Kantian Approach to Biological Functions / Ginsborg, Hannah -- Kant, Polanyi, and Molecular Biology / Roth, Siegfried -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Contributors

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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 studies. The volume presents fifteen interpretative essays written by experts working in the field, covering topics from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biological theories, the development of the philosophy of biology in Kant's writings, the theory of organisms in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, and current perspectives on the teleology of nature.

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