1, 184a10–16). In the course of doing so, Aristotle defines a large number of key notions of his natural philosophy, such as motion and change, space and time, matter and form, causal explanation, ...

THERE has recently been a considerable revival of interest, largely due to the work of Darlington 1, in the teleology of different systems of reproduction. The logical status of teleological ...

Plato, like nearly every other thinker in and well after antiquity, associated teleology with conscious purpose. To make the world a purposive structure just is to posit an intelligent mind as its ...

Dennett’s philosophy undercut any idea of teleology or “purposive” creation. There is no point in our existence, he ...

Aristotle, a fourth-century BCE thinker, is most well-known as a significant figure in philosophy, remembered for his ...

Kirby, William C. "When Did China Become China? Thoughts on the Twentieth Century." In The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State, edited by Joshua A. Fogel, 105–114. Philadelphia: University of ...

MR. HUXLEY has truly said 1 that “perhaps the most remarkable service to the philosophy of biology rendered by Mr. Darwin is the reconciliation of teleology and morphology, and the explanation ...

In demonstrating the common teleology of revolutionary completion and an idealised constitution the reforms of the last forty years are placed in comparative intellectual context. The second half of ...