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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Kant on Proper Science
    sub title: Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum
  name:
    name part: van den Berg, Hein.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 283 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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. .
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Note on citation and translation -- 1. Introduction: Kant on Science and Biology -- 2. Kant’s Conception of Proper Science -- 3. Mechanical Explanation and Grounding -- 4. Kant on Teleology -- 5. Kant on the Domain and Method of Biology -- 6. Kant on the Systematicity of Physics and the Opus postumum -- 7. Vital Forces and Organisms in the Opus postumum -- 8. Materialism, Hylozoism, and Natural History in the Opus postumum -- 9. Concluding Remarks.
  note: by Hein van den Berg.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  classification: B108-5802
  classification: 180-190
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in German Idealism, 15
  identifier: 9789400771406
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6
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    record creation date: 131008
    record change date: 20151204174916.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-7140-6