Understanding purpose: Kant and the philosophy of biology

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Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press (2007)
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A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology.

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QH331.U53 2007

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10.1515/9781580466950

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De formatione intestinorum (1768-69).  (pages 8--37)Jean-Claude Dupont
Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature.  (pages 8--137)Robert J. Richards
Kant and British Bioscience.  (pages 8--149)Phillip Sloan
Kant's Explanatory Natural History.  (pages 8--101)Mark Fisher
Kant's Persistent Ambivalence.  (pages 8--51)John H. Zammito
Prekantian revival of epigenesis: Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum (1768-1769).  (pages 37--49)Jean-Claude Dupont
„Succession of Functions and Classifications in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800 “, u P.  (pages 123--135)Stephanie Schmitt

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