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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 June 2020
- ISBN 9780190845704
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 208x135x20 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 halftones 0
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Short description:
This volume explores the intuitive yet puzzling concept of teleology as it has been treated by philosophers from the time of Plato and Aristotle to the present day. Philosophical discussions are enlivened and contextualized by reflections on the implications of teleology in medicine, art, poetry, and music.
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Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things. It is the belief that, for example, salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, and that bears have claws for the sake of catching fish. This volume takes up the intuitive yet puzzling concept of teleology as it has been treated by philosophers from ancient times to the present day. It includes nine main chapters centered on the treatment of teleology in Plato, Aristotle, the Islamic medieval tradition, the Jewish medieval tradition, the Latin medieval tradition, the early modern era, Kant, Hegel, and contemporary philosophy. Each chapter probes central questions such as: is teleology inherent in its subjects or is it imposed on them from the outside? Does teleology necessarily involve intentionality, that is, a subject's cognizing some end, goal, or purpose? What is the scope of teleology? Is it, for example, applicable to elements and animals, or only to rational beings? Finally, is teleology explanatory? When we say that salmon swim upstream in order to spawn, have we explained why they swim upstream? When we say that bears have claws for catching fish, have we explained why bears have claws? The philosophical discussions of the main chapters are enlivened and contextualized by four reflection pieces exploring the implications of teleology in medicine, art, poetry, and music.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction - Jeffrey K. McDonough
1. Plato's Teleology - Thomas Kjeller Johansen
2. Teleology in Aristotle - Mariska Leunissen
Reflection I: Teleology and Function in Galenic Anatomy - Patricia Marechal
3. Avicenna on Teleology: Final Causation and Goodness - Kara Richardson
4. Teleology in the Later Middle Ages - Robert Pasnau
Reflection II: Teleology in Cimabue's Apocalypse Murals at Assisi - Holly Flora
5. Teleology in Jewish Philosophy: Early Talmudists to Spinoza - Yitzhak Melamed
6. Not Dead Yet: Teleology and the Scientific Revolution - Jeffrey McDonough
Reflection III: The End of Poetry: Teleology in Philip Sidney's Sonnets - Kathryn Murphy
7. The Revised Method of Physico-Theology: Kant's Reformed Teleology - Paul Guyer
8. Hegel: The Reality and Priority of Immanent Teleology - James Kreines
Reflection IV: Decoding the Teleology of Jazz - Anna Harwell Celenza
9. Contemporary Teleology - Patrick Forber
