Understanding Purpose
Kant and the Philosophy of Biology
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2007
202 pages
978-1-58046-695-0 (ISBN)
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A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology.
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Pre-Kantian Revival of Epigenesis: Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum (1768-69) - Jean-Claude Dupont
Kant's Persistent Ambivalence toward Epigenesis, 1764-90 - John H. Zammito
Reflexive Judgment and Wolffian Embryology: Kant's Shift between the First and the Third Critiques - Philippe Huneman
Kant's Explanatory Natural History: Generation and Classification of Organisms in Kant's Natural Philosophy - Mark Fisher
Succession of Functions and Classifications in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800 - Stéphane Schmitt
Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature - Robert J. Richards
Kant and British Bioscience - Phillip R. Sloan
Kant's Persistent Ambivalence toward Epigenesis, 1764-90 - John H. Zammito
Reflexive Judgment and Wolffian Embryology: Kant's Shift between the First and the Third Critiques - Philippe Huneman
Kant's Explanatory Natural History: Generation and Classification of Organisms in Kant's Natural Philosophy - Mark Fisher
Succession of Functions and Classifications in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800 - Stéphane Schmitt
Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature - Robert J. Richards
Kant and British Bioscience - Phillip R. Sloan
