... particularly forcefully by Michael DePaul (1993 , 23–56; 1998 , 297–98). 69. See Baker 2011 for a helpful overview. First, though, we should be a bit more precise about what, exactly, a consequentialist or teleological approach involves, whether in the case of ethics or epistemology...

...Martin Lin Cornell University 2006 Teleology and Human Action in Spinoza Martin Lin University of Toronto Spinoza enjoys a widespread reputation as the early modern philosopher who makes the most thoroughgoing and principled...

...Chrisoula Andreou G. F. Schueler, Reasons and Purposes: Human Rationality and the Teleological Explanation of Action. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 174. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 3...

..., and between theories with a teleological structure and those without. Reason-based representations also shed light on an important but underappreciated phenomenon: the “underdetermination of moral theory by deontic content.” 31. To include the tie-breaking criterion from n. 29, we must add to each set N...

... is supposed to be partly intended would find it hard to understand why Spinoza’s masterpiece is entitled The Eth- ics. Despite its somewhat inappropriate classification, Garrett’s contribution, “Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism,” is perhaps the outstand- ing essay in the collection...

... twenty-five years concerning Kant’s views on laws. In the book, not only does Watkins lay out insightful interpretations of the diversity of laws in Kant’s philosophy—both describing Kant’s accounts of laws of nature, teleology, regulativity, and morality and unraveling knotty issues surrounding them...

..., of existence “that are not in the ontology but are rather structures of it” (287). The fourth section contains a scrupulous study of Spinoza’s theory of metaphysical individuation (chap. 11). This is followed by an iconoclastic chapter on teleology in the early modern rationalists in which Garrett suggests...

... or war- rant, nor teleological accounts of belief, deliver adequate illumination of the noncontingent, noninstrumental role of truth in structuring dox- astic deliberation. I then suggest an alternative explanation of trans- parency that makes use of the insight contained in, but misinterpreted...

... as a mechanism with the teleological function of computing (121). Nevertheless, the success of this account does not turn primarily on the details of the teleological theory that precedes it; rather, the real work is in the notion of computation on offer: Generic Computation : the processing of vehicles...

... that if locomotive animals did not have the aisthêtikon , they would perish and fail to reach their end because they would be unable to find food. Here, Walker might insist, Aristotle is offering a teleological explanation for the presence of the aisthêtikon in animals, a capacity that is part of an animal’s...

... imaginary principle of asceticism, which instructs us to minimize happiness. I propose to use Mill’s name for the class of normative theories with this structure, on which considerations of good- ness are the sole normative determinant of rightness: these are teleologi- cal theories.16 Although...

... and to clarify his account of reflecting judgment and the role it plays not just in cognition but in aesthetics and teleology as well. A centerpiece of Ginsborg's interpretation is the idea that, for Kant, reflecting judgment involves what she calls “primitive normativity.” According to Ginsborg, on Kant's...

.... Second, Kreines provides a positive account of explanatory reasons, which requires a defense of natural teleology. The part/whole, type/token relationships exhibited in living organisms provide the basis for an understanding of immanent concepts or kinds, and, in this context, Kreines takes up...

... an account of the human good as happiness ( eudaimonia ), consisting in the fulfillment of human nature, expressed in the various human virtues. His position is teleological, in so far as it seeks the basic guide for action in an ultimate end, eudaemonist, in so far as it identifies the ultimate end...

... that discloses being’s inherent rationality. Hegel’s logical method then consists in the purely immanent, non -teleological derivation of forms of being, or categories, from being itself—forms that include actuality, the Concept and objectivity, and only after these life and cognition. Ng claims not just...

... Schneewind’s The Invention of Autonomy (1998), which focused on the “Grotian problematic”: how to justify morality and the social order without appeal to an outmoded teleological naturalism that ensures the harmony of our real interests. Like any orthodoxy, the doctrine of the rift has its dissenters...

...” epistemically on the “fact” we experience in our consciousness of the purely rational content and unconditional bindingness of morality. Ameriks deftly unpacks Kant's account of how this theologico-teleological “postulate” concerning divine agency is supposed to be compatible with the existence of our own free...

... relevant to agency relate to event causation and causal, teleological, and rational explanation. 1 Hyman's arguments are compelling. It is difficult to find criticisms that are not mere quibbles. In what follows I summarize, highlight noteworthy challenges, and quibble a little. I focus on earlier...

... their teleological view of the universe and they would have expanded their account of human psychological de- velopment using the latest textbooks in psychology. Stoics are often cari- catured as leading bleak lives of forbearance and denial. According to Becker, modern stoics, in favorable circumstances...

... of the past with whom something resembling the grand narrative might be associated. 3 Maybe Hegel (for example) was all wrong about art's teleological historical unfolding, but surely it is not a credible assumption that his mistake was to have been unaware of the manifestly obvious facts that art differ...