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      Kant y la ciencia natural de los organismos Translated title: Kant and the Natural Science of Organisms

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          En la filosofía kantiana la explicación de los organismos, como ejemplos de diseño complejo, es un problema de difícil solución. Como entidades materiales deberían ser explicables por leyes mecánicas. Por su diseño, exigen una explicación por causas finales. Ambas explicaciones son inaceptables. Pero, ¿ofrece Kant acaso alguna explicación alternativa? Parte de su respuesta es que tanto el principio teleológico como el mecanicista deben utilizarse regulativamente. Pero esto implicaría limitar el mecanicismo al papel de idea regulativa. ¿Es esto consistente con su pretensión de haber demostrado que los principios de la mecánica newtoniana son constitutivos a priori de la ciencia natural y de sus objetos? En este ensayo indago por la doctrina positiva de Kant sobre la explicación de los organismos, por su propuesta de reconciliación entre la teleología y el mecanicismo y por la manera como ella encaja con el resto de su filosofía natural.

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          Regarding the explanation of organisms as instances of complex design, Kantian philosophy faces a difficult problem: as material entities they should be explained through mechanical laws, but because of their design, they call for an explanation through final causes. Nonetheless, both explanations are unacceptable. Does Kant offer any way out? Part of his solution is that both teleology and mechanicism must apply as regulative principles. But this implies limiting mechanicism to a regulative idea, which is inconsistent with his claim that newtonian mechanics are a priori valid and constitutive of natural science and its objects. I inquire into Kant's positive doctrine on the natural explanation of organisms, combining teleology and mechanicism, and into the way this fits in his natural philosophy.

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                idval
                Ideas y Valores
                Ideas y Valores
                Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Departamento de Filosofía. (Bogotá )
                0120-0062
                August 2008
                : 57
                : 137
                : 5-24
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                [1 ] Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia
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                S0120-00622008000200001
                080d159c-cabb-4d08-82ce-51127f6285fb

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                PHILOSOPHY

                General philosophy
                embriology,natural purpose,mechanicism,organism,teleology,embriogénesis,fin natural,mecanicismo,organismo,teleología

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