Kant on Proper Science Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum /

• Main Author: van den Berg, Hein (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in German Idealism, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Modern philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; History of Science.; Modern Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.

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 determi...

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.