Purposiveness: Teleology Between Nature and Mind

ISBN-13: 9783110320992 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2008 / 219 str.

Luca Illetterati;Francesca Michelini

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.