etiological approach

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place in philosophy of biology

  • Aristotle
    In philosophy of biology: Teleology

    …“capacity” approach and the “etiological” approach, developed by the American philosophers Robert Cummins and Larry Wright, respectively.

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  • Aristotle
    In philosophy of biology: Teleology

    The etiological approach, though developed in the 1970s, was in fact precisely the same as the view propounded by Kant in his Critique of Judgment (1790). In this case, teleology amounts to the existence of causal relations in which the effect explains or is responsible for…

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