I: Teleological Phenomena --;1. Teleology and reduction: Preliminaries --;2. Purposiveness and designedness --;3. Relative purposiveness --;4. Internal purposiveness --;II: The Kantian Endeavor --;1. The Critical methodology --;2. The quest for unity and the Critique of Judgment --;3. The Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment --;III: Design in Nature --;1. Is purposiveness designedness? --;2. The empirical question --;3. Two methodological objections --;IV: The Mechanism of Nature --;1. Mechanism vs. vitalism, preformation vs. epigenesis --;2. Reductionism in Kant --;3. Kant's anti-reductionism --;4. The freedom of vital phenomena --;V: The Autonomy of Biology --;1. Kant's projectionism --;2. Kant's explanatory systematic unity --;3. A natural dialectic --;4. A noumenal question --;Appendix: Leibniz and the Second Analogy.
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The most neglected sector of Kant's Critical Philosophy is his collec- tion of remarks about biological phenomena in the second part of the Critique of Judgment, the Critique of Teleological Judgment. Finally, the Critique of Teleological Judgment has been placed among the last on that list "of writings thought to formulate Kant's Critical system.