Kant's theory of biology / edited by Ina Goy and Eric Watkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goy, Ina, 1969- editor.

Watkins, Eric, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : de Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110481716

3110481715

9783110225792

3110225794

9783110225785

3110225786

OCLC:

874319718