Hegel's Philosophy of Biology? A Programmatic Overview

Gambarotto, Andrea;Illetterati, Luca
(2020) Hegel Bulletin — Vol. 41, n° 3, p. 1-23 (2020)

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  • Gambarotto, AndreaUCLouvain
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This paper presents what we call ‘Hegel’s philosophy of biology’ to a target audience of both Hegel scholars and philosophers of biology. It also serves to introduce a special issue of the Hegel Bulletin entirely dedicated to a first mapping of this yet to be explored domain of Hegel studies. We submit that Hegel’s philosophy of biology can be understood as a radicalization of the Kantian approach to organisms, and as prefiguring current philosophy of biology in important ways, especially with regard to the nature of biological organization, the role of teleology in biological explanation, and the relation between life and cognition.
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Gambarotto, A., & Illetterati, L. (2020). Hegel’s Philosophy of Biology? A Programmatic Overview. Hegel Bulletin, 41(3), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/hgl.2020.21 (Original work published 2020)