Christoph J Hueck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph J Hueck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hueck |
| SIGNATURE | HUECK C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2513-1919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The epistemological foundations of organicism: A reconstruction of Steiner’s Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung (1886)
Rudolf Steiner’s Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung (Outline of an Epistemology of Goethe's Worldview, 1886) seeks to articulate the epistemological foundations of Goethe’s scientific method. Here I reconstruct the book with a particular focus on the cognition of organisms and read it in systematic relation to Kant, whose analysis of teleological judgment provides the clearest foil for Steiner’s project. The guidin…
Understanding life – how we know the reality of self-formation, teleology, and agency of an organism
Organisms represent a persistent challenge for science and philosophy. Reductionist approaches increasingly appear insufficient, while organicist accounts describe the essential features of living beings without explaining their possibility. Immanuel Kant showed that organisms must be conceived as teleologically structured and self-forming wholes in order to be recognized at all. Yet his critical philosophy also reveals the limits of such recogni…
Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner
This paper investigates the enduring philosophical challenge of how a living organism may be understood, through the epistemological perspectives of Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Rudolf Steiner. Kant's analysis of the necessity of judging organisms as purposive and self-generating wholes is presented as foundational to any systematic account, insofar as it addresses the very conditions under which an organism can become an object…
Empirical vitalism: Observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object
This article proposes an empirical approach to understanding the life of an organism that overcomes reductionist and dualist conceptions. The approach is based on Immanuel Kant's analysis of the cognitive conditions required for the recognition of an organism: the concept of teleology and the assumption of a formative power of self-generation. It is analyzed how these two criteria are applied in the cognition of a developing organism. Using the e…
Cognizing the vital principle of the organism by interpreting the four Aristotelian causes in a Kantian perspective: An outline
This article outlines an epistemological perspective to understand the organism as a temporally changing whole. To analyze the mental faculties involved, the organism’s development and persisting existence is differentiated into four interdependent aspects: descent, future existence, persistent species, and environmentally adapted physical appearance. It is outlined that these aspects are recognized by comparative memory, concept-guided anticipat…
Empirical vitalism: Observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object
This article proposes an empirical approach to understanding the life of an organism that overcomes reductionist and dualist conceptions. The approach is based on Immanuel Kant's analysis of the cognitive conditions required for the recognition of an organism: the concept of teleology and the assumption of a formative power of self-generation. It is analyzed how these two criteria are applied in the cognition of a developing organism. Using the e…
Understanding organisms by intuiting life: Kant, Goethe, and Steiner
This paper investigates the enduring philosophical challenge of how a living organism may be understood, through the epistemological perspectives of Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Rudolf Steiner. Kant's analysis of the necessity of judging organisms as purposive and self-generating wholes is presented as foundational to any systematic account, insofar as it addresses the very conditions under which an organism can become an object…
Empirical vitalism: Observing an organism’s formative power within an active and co-constitutive relation between subject and object
This article proposes an empirical approach to understanding the life of an organism that overcomes reductionist and dualist conceptions. The approach is based on Immanuel Kant's analysis of the cognitive conditions required for the recognition of an organism: the concept of teleology and the assumption of a formative power of self-generation. It is analyzed how these two criteria are applied in the cognition of a developing organism. Using the e…
Cognizing the vital principle of the organism by interpreting the four Aristotelian causes in a Kantian perspective: An outline
This article outlines an epistemological perspective to understand the organism as a temporally changing whole. To analyze the mental faculties involved, the organism’s development and persisting existence is differentiated into four interdependent aspects: descent, future existence, persistent species, and environmentally adapted physical appearance. It is outlined that these aspects are recognized by comparative memory, concept-guided anticipat…
The epistemological foundations of organicism: A reconstruction of Steiner’s Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung (1886)
Rudolf Steiner’s Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung (Outline of an Epistemology of Goethe's Worldview, 1886) seeks to articulate the epistemological foundations of Goethe’s scientific method. Here I reconstruct the book with a particular focus on the cognition of organisms and read it in systematic relation to Kant, whose analysis of teleological judgment provides the clearest foil for Steiner’s project. The guidin…
Understanding life – how we know the reality of self-formation, teleology, and agency of an organism
Organisms represent a persistent challenge for science and philosophy. Reductionist approaches increasingly appear insufficient, while organicist accounts describe the essential features of living beings without explaining their possibility. Immanuel Kant showed that organisms must be conceived as teleologically structured and self-forming wholes in order to be recognized at all. Yet his critical philosophy also reveals the limits of such recogni…
Organism (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works)