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Kant on Proper Science : Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum / by Hein van den Berg

Dordrecht ; s.l. : Springer Netherlands ; Imprint: Springer, 2014

Online-Ressource (XII, 283 p. 1 illus, online resource)

Englisch

AcknowledgmentsNote 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.

Description based upon print version of record

Druckausg.: Kant on proper science

978-94-007-7140-6

978-94-007-7139-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

772142181

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6

CF 5015      Ähnliche Literatur

B108-5802

180190 ; 180-190

Basisklassifikation: 30.02 (Philosophie und Theorie der Naturwissenschaften) ; 08.24 (Neue westliche Philosophie)

bicssc: HPC ; bisacsh: PHI009000

* Kant, Immanuel [1724-1804] ; Naturwissenschaften      Zum Register

*Kant, Immanuel / Opus postumum      Zum Register

* Kant, Immanuel [1724-1804] ; Naturwissenschaften      Zum Register

* Kant, Immanuel [1724-1804] ; Biologie      Zum Register

*Kant, Immanuel / Opus postumum ; Biologie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Philosophy (General) ; Science -- History ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science -- History ; Philosophy, modern

Philosophy (General) / Science / History / Philosophy, modern / Philosophy

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.