Kant on proper science [electronic resource] : biology in the critical philosophy and the Opus postumum / Hein van den Berg.
Van Den Berg, Hein, author.
2014
Q175
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Title
Kant on proper science [electronic resource] : biology in the critical philosophy and the Opus postumum / Hein van den Berg.
Author
Van Den Berg, Hein, author.
ISBN
9789400771406 electronic book
9400771401 electronic book
9789400771390
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6 doi
Call Number
Q175
Dewey Decimal Classification
501
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2013).
Series
Studies in German idealism ; v.15.
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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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