Mention teleology in scientific circles and you’ll usually get a skeptical response. Purpose in the way the world is evolving? Patterns certainly—but purpose? No. Science has gotten along famously ...

Science, which is rightly and necessarily based on materialism, has discounted and dismissed teleology. It has been simplistically viewed as a doctrine explaining phenomena in terms of goals or ends, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The highest available form of understanding of a living structure requires mechanistic reductionist analysis from all points of view. In ...

While the book's subtitle is 'How Mind Emerged From Matter', it's a far more ambitious--and complicated--attempt to show how goal-directed processes, including the origin of life and mind, can arise ...

THERE has recently been a considerable revival of interest, largely due to the work of Darlington 1, in the teleology of different systems of reproduction. The logical status of teleological arguments ...

L'Esprit Créateur, Vol. 52, No. 3, The Recent Work of Luce Irigaray (Fall 2012), pp. 52-65 (14 pages) Luce Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference, Carolyn Burke and Gillian Gill, trans. (New York: ...