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:9781108438551 ISBN 10: 1108438555 Series:Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant Pages: 82 Publication Date:08 May 2025 Audience:
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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.
