Hegel's Philosophy of Biology? A Programmatic Overview
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: This paper presents what we call ‘Hegel's philosophy of biology’ to a target audience of both Hegel scholars and philosophers of biology. It also serves to introduce a special issue of theHegel Bulletinentirely dedicated to a first mapping of this yet to be explored domain of Hegel studies. We submit that Hegel's philosophy of biology can be understood as a radicalization of the Kantian approach to organisms, and as prefiguring current philosophy of biology in important ways, especially with regard to the nature of biological organization, the role of teleology in biological explanation, and the relation between life and cognition.
Source: Hegel Bulletin
DOI: 10.1017/hgl.2020.21
Authors: Andrea Gambarotto, Luca Illetterati
Institution: UCLouvain
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3086760554