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The Organism Concept: Kant’ s Methodological Turn

I point out that Kant’ s account of the biological notion of organism swings between two types of philosophical analysis: an essentialist analysis (PA1) and a methodological one (PA2). (PA1) emphasizes the necessary and sufficient conditions for classifying an object as specifically biological. (PA2) focuses rather on the way in which the biological notion of organism contributes – and ought to contribute – to our understanding of biological phenomena. I argue that Kant firstly assesses (PA1), but, at the end, opts for a better scientific potential of (PA2).

biological individuals, Kant, essentialism, scientific methodology

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