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Teleology and mechanism: a dialectical approach
Synthese, 2023 The paper proposes a dialectical approach to our understanding of the relation between teleology and mechanism. This approach is dialectical both in form and content.
A. Gambarotto
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Resolving teleology’s false dilemma
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022 This paper argues that the account of teleology previously proposed by the authors is consistent with the physical determinism that is implicit across many of the sciences.
G. Babcock, D. McShea
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Aesthetics of Tourism according to Kant`s Attitude to the Nature in Critique of Judgment [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 interaction between sciences and philosophy In this research, we intend to examine Immanuel Kant's definition of nature in his critique of judgment in both parts, i.e., aesthetics and teleology. Then, we will evaluate these definitions of nature with
Farideh Afarin, Bita Abde Nikfarjam
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White Progress: Kant, Race and Teleology
Kantian Review, 2022 This article examines how Kant’s conceptualizations of natural history and teleological judgement shape his understanding of human difference and race.
I. Marwah
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On the naturalisation of teleology: self-organisation, autopoiesis and teleodynamics
Adaptive Behavior, 2021 In recent decades, several theories have claimed to explain the teleological causality of organisms as a function of self-organising and self-producing processes.
M. García-Valdecasas
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Aisthesis, 2022 The paper inquires Husserl’s immanent teleology of conscious life, conceived as a Teleologie der «tiefen» Assoziationen. The associative genesis entails synthetical processes in the primordial-associative field, driven by the general concept of interest.
Andrea Lanza
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Projection or encounter? Investigating Hans Jonas’ case for natural teleology
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2021 This article discusses Hans Jonas’ argument for teleology in living organisms, in light of recently raised concerns over enactivism’s “Jonasian turn.” Drawing on textual resources rarely discussed in contemporary enactivist literature on Jonas ...
Sigurd Hverven, Thomas Netland
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Strong and Weak Teleology in the Life Sciences Post-Darwin
Religions, 2020 It is often assumed that direction and purpose in nature—teleology—is a dead relic of the past, a result of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871). But teleology has had a long and complex relationship with science.
Michael A. Flannery
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Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020 Teleology, explaining the existence of a feature on the basis of what it does, is usually considered as an obstacle or misconception in evolution education.
K. Kampourakis
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