Beisbart, Claus (2009) Kant’s Characterization of Natural Ends. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
What is it to judge something to be a natural end? And what objects may properly be judged natural ends? These questions pose a challenge, because the predicates “natural” and “end” seemingly can not be instantiated at the same time – at least given some Kantian assumptions. My paper defends the thesis that Kant’s “Critique of Teleological Judgment” (CTJ), nevertheless, provides a sensible account of judging something a natural end. On the account, a person judges an object O a natural end, if she thinks that the parts of O cause O and if she is committed to approach O in a top-down manner, as if the parts were produced in view of the whole. The account is non-realist, because it involves a commitment. With the account comes a characterization that provides necessary and sufficient conditions on objects that may properly be judged natural ends. My paper reconstructs the argument in CTJ, §§64-65 where the account and the characterization are derived.
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Keywords: | teleology, Critique of Judgment, holism | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology |
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Depositing User: | Claus Beisbart | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2009 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:17 | ||||||
Item ID: | 4584 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology |
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Date: | 2009 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4584 |
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