Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's Notes
- Introduction: Kant and Biology? A Quick Survey
- 1 Pre-Kantian Revival of Epigenesis: Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum (1768–69)
- 2 Kant's Persistent Ambivalence toward Epigenesis, 1764–90
- 3 Reflexive Judgment and Wolffian Embryology: Kant's Shift between the First and the Third Critiques
- 4 Kant's Explanatory Natural History: Generation and Classification of Organisms in Kant's Natural Philosophy
- 5 Succession of Functions and Classifications in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800
- 6 Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature
- 7 Kant and British Bioscience
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's Notes
- Introduction: Kant and Biology? A Quick Survey
- 1 Pre-Kantian Revival of Epigenesis: Caspar Friedrich Wolff's De formatione intestinorum (1768–69)
- 2 Kant's Persistent Ambivalence toward Epigenesis, 1764–90
- 3 Reflexive Judgment and Wolffian Embryology: Kant's Shift between the First and the Third Critiques
- 4 Kant's Explanatory Natural History: Generation and Classification of Organisms in Kant's Natural Philosophy
- 5 Succession of Functions and Classifications in Post-Kantian Naturphilosophie around 1800
- 6 Goethe's Use of Kant in the Erotics of Nature
- 7 Kant and British Bioscience
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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- Understanding PurposeKant and the Philosophy of Biology, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007