Organisms and the Unity of Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23724880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Guyer (0000-0001-7195-6710, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 86-112 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Kant's System of Nature and Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273461.003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2480122934 |
| ISBN | 9780199273461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
There is tension between Kant's hopes for the unity of science and his argument in a number of works that the life is incompatible with the principle of inertia, thus that organisms cannot be integrated into physics. This chapter argues that Kant was trying to resolve this tension in his incomplete Opus postumum by extending his transcendental idealist solution to the problem of human freedom, according to which human actions are causally determined as phenomena although free as noumena, to organisms, which would thus be conceived of from two points of view: as both causally determined, as required by the principle of inertia, but also purposive, which is purportedly incompatible with that principle.
Argument (complex analysis) · Classical mechanics · Epistemology · Inertia · Physics · Transcendental number · Chemistry · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |