Kant and Teleology

Thomas Teufel (City University of New York)

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Cambridge University Press
08 May 2025

Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy: logic; Philosophy: aesthetics; Philosophy of science

Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Kant's mature teleological philosophy in the Critique of the Power of Judgment is predicated on innovations that address a set of unprecedented challenges arising from within critical philosophy. The challenges are (1) a threat of “transcendental chaos” between sensibility and understanding, emerging from the structure of critical epistemology; (2) a threat of “critical chaos” between determination and reflection, generated by Kant's response to that first threat. The innovations include (a) a transcendental conception of purposiveness, (b) a principle of nature's purposiveness based on that conception, (c) a power of judgment governed by that principle, (d) and so governed in an unusual (self-given and self-governing) way, (e) a view on which nature does make leaps. This Element argues that Kant's mature teleological philosophy – and a fortiori Kant's aesthetics and philosophy of biology – cannot be understood without a fully systematic account of these challenges and innovations, and it presents such an account.

By: Thomas Teufel (City University of New York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009662383
ISBN 10: 1009662384
Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 08 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

1. Kant's critical teleology; 2. Philosophy of Biology or critique of judgment?; 3. Purposiveness as transcendental principle; 4. The transcendental deduction of the principle of nature's purposiveness; 5. Nature's Saltūs; References.