During the last twenty years, Kant's theory of biology has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and developed into a field which is growing rapidly in importance within Kant studies. The volume presents fifteen interpretative essays written by experts working in the field, covering topics from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biological theories, the development of the philosophy of biology in Kant's writings, the theory of organisms in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, and current perspectives on the teleology of nature.

Ein textnaher, fortlaufender Kommentar zu Kants Lehre von organisierten Wesen in der "Kritik der Urteilskraft" ist ein Desiderat sowohl der Kantforschung als auch der Philosophie und Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften. Auch gibt es bisher nur wenige Lesarten, die Kants Philosophie der Biologie im Ganzen erschlieen und versuchen, sie in die vielschichtigen historischen Kontexte der fruhneuzeitlichen Naturforschung einzuordnen. Das vorliegende Buch schliet diese Lucken. Es verteidigt die Thesen, dass Kant organisierte Wesen durch drei Arten von Kraften und Gesetzen charakterisiert - durch...

During the last twenty years, Kant's theory of biology has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and developed into a field which is growing rapidly in importance within Kant studies. The volume presents fifteen interpretative essays written by experts working in the field, covering topics from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biological theories, the development of the philosophy of biology in Kant's writings, the theory of organisms in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, and current perspectives on the teleology of nature.