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Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution [PDF]

Organon F, 2023
Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently.
Jonathan Bartlett
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Towards a Unity of Theoretical and Practical Reason: On the Constitutive Significance of the Transcendental Dialectic

Open Philosophy, 2022
The article focuses on re-evaluating Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic by initially highlighting its seemingly negative function within the Critique of Pure Reason as a mere regulative form for cognition and experience.
König Robert
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Goal-Directed Planning and Goal Understanding by Extended Active Inference: Evaluation through Simulated and Physical Robot Experiments

Entropy, 2022
We show that goal-directed action planning and generation in a teleological framework can be formulated by extending the active inference framework. The proposed model, which is built on a variational recurrent neural network model, is characterized by ...
Takazumi Matsumoto, Wataru Ohata, Fabien C. Y. Benureau, Jun Tani   +3 more
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Pandemic and the Nature-Alienated Self

Religions, 2022
This consideration of COVID-19 places the pandemic in the larger context of our present-day ontology and the environmentally destructive human–nature relationship that characterizes it, exploring it in three parts.
Alexander J. B. Hampton
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Teleological generics

Cognition, 2018
Certain “generic” generalizations concern functions and purposes, e.g., cars are for driving. Some functional properties yield unacceptable teleological generics: for instance, cars are for parking seems false even though people park cars as often as they drive them. No theory of teleology in philosophy or psychology can explain what makes teleological
Khemlani , Sangeet, Korman , Joanna
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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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Husserl and the Theological Question

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2018
Defending the ancient thesis, that being and the true, or being and manifestation, are necessarily inseparable, is at the heart of transcendental phenomenology.
James G. Hart
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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 OF THE PRACTICAL IN ARISTOTLE: THE MEANING OF “ΠΡAΞΙΣ”

Manuscrito, 2019
I show that in his De motu animalium Aristoteles proposes a teleology of the practical on the most general zoological level, i.e. on the level common to humans and self-moving animals. A teleology of the practical is a teleological account of the highest
Klaus Corcilius
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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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