Description
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Chapter 1: ON FAITH AND BELIEF
Chapter 2: THE ONTOLOGICAL PROOF REVISITED
Chapter 3: RELIGION AND PRAGMATISM
Chapter 4: PROCESS THEOLOGY
Chapter 5: GOD'S PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 6: CAN A SCIENTIST BE SERIOUS ABOUT RELIGION?
Chapter 7: DARWINISM AND THE INTELLIGENT DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF THEISM
Chapter 8: AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EPISTEMIC DISPARITY
Chapter 9: THOMISM: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Chapter 10: RESPECT FOR TRADITION
Chapter 11: IN MATTERS OF RELIGION
Index of Names
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Since the rise of modern thought and natural science, teleological discourses have been banished as explanatory tools in natural investigations. The various contributions to this volume embrace the task of rethinking natural purposiveness in accordance with natural science. They set out from the issue of whether, and in which form, it is possible to talk of purposes in nature, without resorting to an account requesting some intentional agent. The legitimacy of such a notion as that of internal teleology has been addressed, together with the issue of what the term "internal" properly denotes. It is meant to be an alternative both to the position of those who assume that teleology in biology requires a dimension transcending nature itself and find in teleological language an argument for the Intelligent Designer, and to the stance of those who aim to eliminate teleology from scientific inquiry altogether.
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Luca Illetterati, Francesca Michelini
Introduction
Antonio Nunziante
Back to the Roots. Functions and Teleology in the Philosophy of Leibniz
Predrag ustar
The organism concept: Kant s methodological turn
Cord Friebe
Kant s Ontology of Organisms
Francesca Michelini
Thinking life. Hegel s conceptualization of living being as an autopoietic theory of organized systems
Nicoletta De Cian
Unintelligent purposes. Schopenhauer s way over Kantian teleology
Tristana Dini
From the self-preservation of the individual to regulation of the species. Biopolitics and teleology
Luca Illetterati
Being-for. Purposes and Functions in Artefacts and Living Beings
Georg Toepfer
Teleology in Natural Organized Systems and in Artefacts: Interdependence of Processes versus External Design
Paolo Costa
Beyond Teleology?
Andreas Weber-Francisco J. Varela
Naturalizing teleology: towards a Theory of Biological Subjects
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Francesca Michelini studied for her PhD in philosophy at the Universities of Genoa and Munich. She is the author of several publications on German Idealism and History of Modern Philosophy. She currently works at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento on the topic of philosophy of biology.Luca Illetterati is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padua. The main theme of his research is the relationship between philosophy and science of nature in the philosophical tradition. He works on the philosophical debate over the notion of the organism with special regard to German classical philosophy from Kant to Heidegger.
