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1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in German Idealism, 1571-4764 ; volume 15 |
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Studies in German idealism ; v. 15.
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880-01 Introduction: Kant on Science and Biology -- Kant's Conception of Proper Science -- Mechanical Explanation and Grounding -- Kant on Teleology -- Kant on the Domain and Method of Biology -- Kant on the Systematicity of Physics and the Opus postumum -- Vital Forces and Organisms in the Opus postumum -- Materialism, Hylozoism, and Natural History in the Opus postumum -- Concluding Remarks |
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880-01/(S Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Kant on Science and Biology -- 1.1. Biology, Teleology, and Explanation -- 1.2. Methodology -- 1.3. Overview of the Work -- 2. Kant's Conception of Proper Science -- 2.1. Systematicity -- 2.1.1. Definitions -- 2.1.2. Logical Division -- 2.1.3. Completeness -- 2.2. Objective Grounding -- 2.2.1. Grounding is not Identical to Derivability -- 2.2.2. Grounding is a Special Case of Derivability -- 2.2.3. Grounding in Natural Science, Natural Description, and Natural History -- 2.3. Apodictic Certainty -- 2.4. Mathematics, A Priori Justification, and Grounding -- 2.4.1. Mathematics and Grounding -- 2.5. Metaphysics, A Priori Justification, and Objective Grounding -- 2.5.1. Metaphysics and Apodictic Certainty -- 2.5.2. Metaphysics and Grounding -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 3. Mechanical Explanation and Grounding -- 3.1. Understanding Mechanical Explanation -- 3.2. Tradition of Part-Whole Conceptualizations -- 3.3. Parts, Wholes, and Definitions -- 3.4. Parts, Wholes, and Explanation -- 3.5. Parts, Wholes, and Forces: Mechanical Explanation -- 3.5.1. Mechanical Explanation in Natural Science -- 3.5.2. Mechanical Method in Biology -- 3.6. Parts, Wholes, and Mechanical Explanation in Kant -- 3.6.1. Parts, Wholes, and Demonstrations in Kant -- 3.6.2. Mechanical Explanations as Explanatory Demonstrations proceeding from Synthetic Principles -- 3.7. Crystallization -- 3.8. Mechanical Inexplicability of Organisms -- 3.8.1. Contingent Unity of Organisms -- 3.8.2. Adaptation and Mechanical Explanation -- 3.9. Mechanism as Method -- 3.10. Conclusion -- 4. Kant on Teleology -- 4.1. Recent Interpretations of Kant's Biological Teleology -- 4.2. Baumgarten and Wolff on Efficient Causes, Utility, and Final Causes -- 4.3. Kant on Purpose, Nexus Effectivus, and Nexus Finalis: The Lectures on Metaphysics -- 4.4. Kant on Purpose, Nexus Effectivus, and Nexus Finalis: Uber den Gebrauch teleologischer Principien in der Philosophie and the Kritik der Urteilskraft -- 4.5. Purposes and Explanation -- 4.6. Kant's Critique of the Rationalists -- 4.7. Conclusion -- 5. Kant on the Domain and Method of Biology -- 5.1. Constitutive Teleology and Teleomechanism -- 5.2. Kant's Critique of Leibniz: Parts, Wholes, and Organisms -- 5.2.1. Organisms and their Relative Simple Parts -- 5.3. Blumenbach on the Domain of Natural History -- 5.4. Kant on Propagation, Growth and Nutrition, and Self-Maintenance: Subordinating Mechanism to Teleology -- 5.4.1. Reproduction and Species -- 5.4.2. Growth and Nutrition -- 5.4.3. Self-Preservation and Regeneration -- 5.5. Kant on Purpose and Natural Purpose: Determining the Proper Method of Biology -- 5.6. Construing the Domain of Biology -- 5.7. Conclusion -- 6. Kant on the Systematicity of Physics and the Opus postumum -- 6.1. Three Distinguishing Features of a Science -- 6.2. Kant's Varieties of Physics -- 6.2.1. Object of Universal Physics -- 6.2.2. Rational and Empirical Physics -- 6.2.3. Physica Rationales and Physica Generalis -- 6.3. Physics as Presented in Eighteenth-Century Textbooks -- 6.3.1. Eberhard's Erste Grunde der Naturlehre -- 6.3.2. Karstens's Anleitung zur gemeinnutzlichen Kenntniβ der Natur -- 6.3.3. Gehler's Physikalisches Worterbuch -- 6.3.4. Unity and Disunity of Natural Science -- 6.4. Kant's Transition (Ubergang) to Physics -- 6.4.1. Interpretations of the Opus postumum -- 6.4.2. Kant's Transition Project and the Systematicity of Physics -- 6.4.3. Physica Generulis and Physica Specialis in Kant's Transition Project -- 6.4.4. Scientific Topics in the Transition -- 6.4.5. Transition and Biology -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. Vital Forces and Organisms in the Opus postumum -- 7.1. Opus postumum and Kant's Philosophy of Organic Nature -- 7.2. Theories of Vital Force -- 7.2.1. Blumenbach's Theory of Vital Force and the Bildungstrieb -- 7.2.2. Brandis and Reil on Vital Force: Some Different Perspectives -- 7.3. Kant, Vital Force, and Regulative Teleology -- 7.3.1. Kant's Critique of Herder -- 7.3.2. Kant's Critique of Hylozoism -- 7.3.3. Vital Forces in the Opus postumum -- 7.4. Concept Òrganism' in Kant's Transition -- 7.5. Conclusion -- 8. Materialism, Hylozoism, and Natural History in the Opus postumum -- 8.1. Kant on Sommering's Uber das Organ der Seele -- 8.2. On Souls and Immaterial Principles in the Opus postumum -- 8.3. Anti-hylozoism in the Opus postumum -- 8.3.1. Maimon's Theory of the World-Soul -- 8.3.2. Concept of Life in the Opus postumum -- 8.4. Revisiting Mechanical Explanation in the Opus postumum -- 8.4.1. Construing Biology as a Part of a Unified Physics -- 8.5. Kant on Natural History -- 8.5.1. Natural History: Kant's Positions Predating the Opus postumum -- 8.5.2. Natural History and External Teleology -- 8.6. Conclusion -- 9. Concluding Remarks |
| Summary |
This book provides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant's views on proper natural science and biology. The status of biology in Kant's system of science is often taken to be problematic. By analyzing Kant's philosophy of biology in relation to his conception of proper science, the present book determines Kant's views on the scientific status of biology. Combining a broad ideengeschichtlich approach with a detailed historical reconstruction of philosophical and scientific texts, the book establishes important interconnections between Kant's philosophy of science, his views on biology, and his reception of late 18th century biological theories. It discusses Kant's views on science and biology as articulated in his published writings and in the Opus postumum. The book shows that although biology is a non-mathematical science and the relation between biology and other natural sciences is not specified, Kant did allow for the possibility of providing scientific explanations in biology and assigned biology a specific domain of investigation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2013) |
| Subject |
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
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| SUBJECT |
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- History -- 18th century
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Science
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789400771406 |
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9400771401 |
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9400771398 |
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9789400771390 |
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940077141X |
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9789400771413 |
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9781306279567 |
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1306279569 |
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