Two views on nature: A solution to Kant's antinomy of mechanism and teleology

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2):351 – 369 (2008)
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Kant on understanding organisms as natural purposes.Hannah Ginsborg - 2001 - In Eric Watkins (ed.), Kant and the Sciences. Oxford University Press. pp. 231--58.
Two kinds of mechanical inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle.Hannah Ginsborg - 2004 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (1):33-65.

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