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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
exaly   +4 more sources

Forms of Teleology

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The research addresses a relevant and controversial topic - teleology. Final causality is the keystone without which the construction and consolidation of the paradigm of global evolutionism in the modern scientific community is unthinkable.
Dmitry V. Mamchenkov, Vyacheslav M. Naidysh   +1 more
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Means to an end: teleological bias in moral reasoning [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
No model to date has integrated findings from teleological explanation with findings from moral reasoning to explore an underlying mechanism of moral cognition.
Eloise Davenport, John D. Coley
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Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision [PDF]

Communications Psychology
Paranoia (believing others intend harm) and excess teleological thinking (ascribing too much purpose) are non-consensual beliefs about agents. Human vision rapidly detects agents and their intentions.
Santiago Castiello, Joan Danielle K. Ongchoco, Benjamin van Buren, Brian J. Scholl, Philip R. Corlett   +4 more
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The Revival of Teleology, After Its Death By Darwin [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
Two distinct teleological perspectives emerge from the ancient Greek tradition. (1) Platonic teleology, which represents teleology as the result of intentional agency and is the origin of the idea of design; and (2) Aristotelian teleology, which ...
Nima Narimani
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Hylomorphic Teleology in Aristotle’s Physics II

Studia Gilsoniana, 2019
This study draws attention to the ordering of matter and form argued for in Aristotle’s Physics II, 8 (199a30–32). This argument for hylomorphic teleology relies on the presentation of nature earlier in Physics II, 1.
Catherine Peters
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Teleology in the coordination of the whole in Metaphysics Λ10

Revista de Filosofia Antiga
This article aims to offer an alternative reading of the opening passage of Metaphysics Λ10. The passage in question, corresponding to 1075a11-25, is often interpreted as an Aristotelian attempt to present the Prime Mover as a unifying cause of the ...
Renan Eduardo Stoll
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Teleology in the Ayala’s F. J. biophilosophic thought

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015
Teleology is today one of the most important issues on Biology debate. Prof. F. J. Ayala strongly supports the uses of teleological explanations in Biology.
Diego Cano Espinosa
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Participation in Eternity: The Ultimate Ground of Aristotle’s Teleological Explanation [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020
Divine aspect of Aristotelian Philosophy and especially the divine aspect of his teleology is one of the most difficult and controversial problems.
Mustafa Zali
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Will, Original Teleology and the Divine Entelechy in Husserl’s Thought

Religions, 2023
The central intention of this paper is to explore original teleology and to solve the riddle of matter based on the analysis of the flow of absolute consciousness. The paper unfolds in four steps.
Yun Zeng
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