This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germ

Monte Johnson examines one of the most controversial aspects of Aristiotle's natural philosophy: his teleology. Is teleology about causation or explanation? Doe

In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end (for example, wings are present in

This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things wi

Since the rise of modern thought and natural science, teleological discourses have been banished as explanatory tools in natural investigations. The various con