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Purposiveness : teleology between nature and mind /

Since the rise of modern thought and natural science, teleological discourses have been banished as explanatory tools in natural investigations. The various contributions to this volume embrace the task of rethinking natural purposiveness in accordance with natural science. They set out from the iss...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Illetterati, Luca, Michelini, Francesca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION Luca Illetterati and Francesca Michelini""; ""Back to the Roots. â€?Functionsâ€? and â€?Teleologyâ€? in the Philosophy of Leibniz* Antonio M. Nunziante""; ""The organism concept: Kantâ€?s methodological turn Predrag Å ustar""; ""Kantâ€?s Ontology of Organisms Cord Friebe""; ""Thinking Life. Hegelâ€?s Conceptualization of Living Being as an Autopoietic Theory of Organized Systems Francesca Michelini""; ""Unintelligent Purposes. Schopenhauerâ€?s Way over KantianTeleology* Nicoletta De Cian""
  • ""From the Self-preservation of the Individual to Regulation of the Species. Biopolitics and Teleology Tristana Dini""""Being-for. Purposes and Functions in Artefacts and Living Beings. Luca Illetterati""; ""Teleology in Natural Organized Systems and in Artefacts. Interdependence of Processes versus External Design Georg Toepfer""; ""Beyond Teleology? Paolo Costa""; ""Naturalizing Teleology: Towards a Theory of Biological Subjects* Andreas Weber â€? Francisco J. Varela""