Research Catalog

Title

Purposiveness : teleology between nature and mind / Luca Illetterati, Francesca Michelini (eds.).

Publication

Frankfurt, M. [i.e.] Heusenstamm : Ontos ; Piscataway, NJ : Distributed in North and South America by Transaction Books, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Illetterati, Luca.
• Michelini, Francesca.

Description

223 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"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 issue of whether, and in which form, it is possible to talk of purposes in nature, without resorting to an account requesting some intentional agent. The legitimacy of such a notion as that of internal teleology has been addressed, together with the issue of what the term 'internal' properly denotes. It is meant to be an alternative both to the position of those who assume that teleology in biology requires a dimension transcending nature itself and find in teleological language an argument for the Intelligent Designer, and to the stance of those who aim to eliminate teleology from scientific inquiry altogether."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Teleology between nature and mind

Subject

• Causation
• Teleology
• Philosophy of mind
• Analytische Philosophie
• Naturwissenschaften
• Teleologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Luca Illetterati, Francesca Michelini -- Back to the roots : 'functions' and 'teleology' in the philosophy of Leibniz / Antonio M. Nunziante -- The organism concept : Kant's methodological turn / Predrag Šustar -- Kant's ontology of organisms / Cord Friebe -- Thinking life : Hegel's conceptualization of living being as an autopoietic theory of organized systems / Francesca Michelini -- Unintelligent purposes : Schopenhauer's way over Kantian teleology / 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, Francisco J. Varela.

ISBN

• 9783938793725
• 3938793724

LCCN

9783938793725

OCLC

• ocn259253557
• 259253557
• SCSB-9584672

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library