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Cooper, Andrew J. (2019) Living natural products in Kant's physical geography. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences . 101191. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101191 ISSN 1369-8486.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101191
Abstract
In this paper I propose a new account of living natural products in Kant’s physical geography. I argue that Kant adopts Buffon’s twofold conception of natural history, which consists of a general theory of nature as a physical nexus of causes and a particular account of living natural products in the setting of the earth. Yet in contrast to Buffon, who placed the two parts of natural history on equal epistemic footing, Kant’s physical geography can be understood as a second, pragmatic level of inquiry that stands under the formal conditions of nature outlined in Universal Natural History. On the higher, formal level, natural history provides a physical account of time and space as an expanding causal sequence. On the lower, pragmatic level, physical geography provides a causal account of particular natural products as developing within a specific place. I argue that this two-tiered account not only clarifies the relation between metaphysics and experience in Kant’s pre-critical philosophy, it also sheds light on the continuity between the method of physical geography and the systematisation of nature presented in the critical philosophy.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Physical geography, Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Criticism and interpretation, Nebular hypothesis, Natural products, Natural history | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1369-8486 | ||||||
Official Date: | 26 July 2019 | ||||||
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Article Number: | 101191 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101191 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 July 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 January 2021 | ||||||
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