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024 7 _a10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6
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082 0 4 _a180-190
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100 1 _avan den Berg, Hein.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aKant on Proper Science
_h[electronic resource] :
_bBiology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum /
_cby Hein van den Berg.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2014.
300 _aXII, 283 p. 1 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aStudies in German Idealism,
_x1571-4764 ;
_v15
505 0 _aAcknowledgments -- Note 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.
520 _aThis 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.           
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
650 0 _aPhilosophy, modern.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Philosophy.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Science.
650 2 4 _aModern Philosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9789400771390
830 0 _aStudies in German Idealism,
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_v15
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6
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