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Understanding purpose : Kant and the philosophy of biology /

A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology. Understanding Purpose is an exploration of the central concept of natural purpose [Naturzweck] in Kant's philosophy of biology. Kant'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Huneman, Philippe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Univ. of Rochester Press, ©2007.
Colección:North American Kant Society studies in philosophy ; vol. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pre-Kantian revival of epigenesis : Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum (1768-69) / Jean-Claude Dupont
  • Kant's persistent ambivalence toward epigenesis, 1764-90 / John H. Zammito
  • Reflexive judgment and Wolffian embryology : Kant's shift between the First and the Third critiques / Philippe Huneman
  • Kant's explanatory natural history : generation and classification of organisms in Kant's natural philosophy / Mark Fisher
  • Succession of functions and classifications in post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800 / Stéphane Schmitt
  • Goethe's use of Kant in the erotics of nature / Robert J. Richards
  • Kant and British bioscience / Phillip R. Sloan.