Index of Subjects

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Citations and Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Kant’s Theory of Biology and Research on Nature in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
6. Metaphysics and Physiology in Kant’s Attitude towards Theories of Preformation 25
7. Epigenetic Theories: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant 43
8. Organisms and Metaphysics: Kant’s First Herder Review 61
9. Part II. Kant’s Theory of Biology—Commentaries on the “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment” and Other Writings
10. Teleological Judgment: Between Technique and Nature 81
11. Kant’s Account of Biological Causation 99
12. Nature in General as a System of Ends 117
13. Biological Purposiveness and Analogical Reflection 131
14. Mechanical Explanation in the “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment” 149
15. The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment: What It Is and How It Is Solved 167
16. Purposiveness, Necessity, and Contingency 185
17. Kant’s Theory of Biology and the Argument from Design 203
18. Freedom, Happiness, and Nature: Kant’s Moral Teleology (CPJ §§83–4, 86–7) 221
19. The Role of the Organism in the Transcendental Philosophy of Kant’s Opus postumum 239
20. Part III. Kant’s Theory of Biology in the Present Time
21. Oughts without Intentions: A Kantian Approach to Biological Functions 259
22. Kant, Polanyi, and Molecular Biology 275
23. Bibliography 293
24. Index of Names 307
25. Index of Subjects 311
26. Contributors 319