What is Kant’s conception of biological methodology? I reconstruct Blumenbach’s and Kant’s views on the reproduction, nutrition, growth, and self-maintenance of organisms. I show how both authors delimit the domain of biology by describing these organic processes and by analyzing teleological principles that ground biological research. I then show how we should explain such organic processes according to Kant.
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van den Berg, H. (2014). Kant on the Domain and Method of Biology. In Studies in German Idealism (Vol. 15, pp. 111–147). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6_5
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