Add to ORKGThe distinction between teleology and teleonomy that biologists sometimes refer to seems to be helpful in certain contexts, but it is used in several different ways and has rarely been clearly drawn. This paper discusses three prominent uses of the term “teleonomy” and traces its history back to what seems to be its first use. This use is examined in detail and then justified and refined on the basis of elements found in the philosophy of Aristotle, Kant, Anscombe and others. In the course of this explication, it will also be shown how the description of end-directed processes relates to their explanation
Among the epistemological obstacles described by Gaston Bachelard, we contend that unitary and pragm...
I take the problem of teleological language in Biology to be twofold. Firstly it can make problemat...
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in b...
The distinction between ‘mechanical’ and ‘teleological’ has been familiar since Kant; between a full...
The distinction between 'mechanical' and 'teleological' has been familiar since Kant; between a full...
Teleology has a complicated history in the biological sciences. Some have argued that Darwin’s theor...
The field of the philosophy of biology is flourishing in its aim to evaluate and rethink the view in...
A teleological explanation is an explanation in terms of an end or a purpose. So saying that ‘X came...
Teleology is the idea according to which every event is directed toward precise aim, even those not ...
The thesis titled ‘A Mentalistic Account of Teleology in Biology’ is a philosophical acc...
During the last century, most philosophers of science have tried to expunge teleological explanation...
A linguagem teleológica pode ser definida como um discurso prospectivo, e isto tem preocupado biólog...
The rise of mechanistic science in the seventeenth century helped give rise to a heated debate about...
The aim of teleosemantics is to give a scientifically respectable, or ‘naturalistic’ theory of menta...
We have been accustomed at least since Kant and mainstream history of philosophy to distinguish betw...
Among the epistemological obstacles described by Gaston Bachelard, we contend that unitary and pragm...
I take the problem of teleological language in Biology to be twofold. Firstly it can make problemat...
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in b...
The distinction between ‘mechanical’ and ‘teleological’ has been familiar since Kant; between a full...
The distinction between 'mechanical' and 'teleological' has been familiar since Kant; between a full...
Teleology has a complicated history in the biological sciences. Some have argued that Darwin’s theor...
The field of the philosophy of biology is flourishing in its aim to evaluate and rethink the view in...
A teleological explanation is an explanation in terms of an end or a purpose. So saying that ‘X came...
Teleology is the idea according to which every event is directed toward precise aim, even those not ...
The thesis titled ‘A Mentalistic Account of Teleology in Biology’ is a philosophical acc...
During the last century, most philosophers of science have tried to expunge teleological explanation...
A linguagem teleológica pode ser definida como um discurso prospectivo, e isto tem preocupado biólog...
The rise of mechanistic science in the seventeenth century helped give rise to a heated debate about...
The aim of teleosemantics is to give a scientifically respectable, or ‘naturalistic’ theory of menta...
We have been accustomed at least since Kant and mainstream history of philosophy to distinguish betw...
Among the epistemological obstacles described by Gaston Bachelard, we contend that unitary and pragm...
I take the problem of teleological language in Biology to be twofold. Firstly it can make problemat...
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in b...