Article ID: CBB000340872

“This Inscrutable Principle of an Original Organization”: Epigenesis and “Looseness of Fit” in Kant's Philosophy of Science (2003)

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Zammito, John H. (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 34
Pages: 73--109


Publication Date: 2003
Edition Details: Special Issue in Memory of Gerd Buchdahl: Kantian Philosophy and the Sciences
Language: English

Description Shows that Kant's engagement with the life sciences played a substantial role in his transcendental philosophy.


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Article Jardine, Nick; Frasca-Spada, Marina (2003) Editorial Preface. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Zammito, John H.
Steigerwald, Joan
Nassar, Dalia
Brogan, Walter
Feigenbaum, Ryan William
Demarest, Boris
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Theoria (0495-4548)
Science in Context
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
Publishers
Villanova University
Wallstein Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Steiner
Concepts
Biology
Epigenesis
Philosophy
Life sciences
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Embryology
People
Kant, Immanuel
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
Wolff, Caspar Friedrich
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Trembley, Abraham
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
Places
Germany
France
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
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