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    Kant’s concept of natural purpose and the reflecting power of judgement.Joan Steigerwald - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (4):712-734.
    This paper examines how in the ‘Critique of teleological judgment’ Kant characterized the concept of natural purpose in relation to and in distinction from the concepts of nature and the concept of purpose he had developed in his other critical writings. Kant maintained that neither the principles of mechanical science nor the pure concepts of the understanding through which we determine experience in general provide adequate conceptualizations of the unique capacities of organisms. He also held that although the concept of (...)
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    Instruments of Judgment: Inscribing Organic Processes in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany.Joan Steigerwald - 2002 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33 (1):79-131.
    The paper argues for the importance to Kant's critique of judgment of epistemological reflections upon the problematics of experimentation on organic processes. It examines the investigations of generation by Wolff and Blumenbach, demonstrating how their experimental practices mediated reflectively between organic phenomena and their conceptualisation, acting as instruments of their judgments of these processes. It then reads Kant's ‘Kritik der teleologischen Urteilskraft’ in light of these experimental investigations, arguing that Kant highlights how the problematic relation between organic phenomena and their (...)
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    The dynamics of reason and its elusive object in Kant, Fichte and Schelling.Joan Steigerwald - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1):111-134.
    Kant used transcendental reflection to distinguish in judgment what belongs to its form and what to its material. Regarding the form of judgment, Buchdahl’s work highlights the analogies between the different levels of judgment in Kant’s transcendental ontology. He uses the explicit contingency of judgments of the system of nature to illuminate the contingency of judgments of objects in general. In the Critique of pure reason, Kant had left much of the work of judgment to the unconscious imagination. Fichte and (...)
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    Introduction: Kantian teleology and the biological sciences.Joan Steigerwald - 2006 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37 (4):621-626.
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    Entanglements of instruments and media in investigating organic life.Joan Steigerwald - 2016 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 57:107-111.
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    Ground and Grounding: The Nature of Things in Schelling’s Philosophy.Joan Steigerwald - 2015 - Symposium 19 (1):176-197.
    This paper examines the notions of ground and grounding across several of Schelling’s works, from the philosophy of nature, through transcendental idealism and identity philosophy, to the Freedom essay and The Ages of the World. It contends that Schelling repeatedly returns to the same problematic, that each attempt to establish a foundation for philosophy is inscribed with the particular and the concrete, so that the work of grounding is also an ungrounding. It reads the different expressions of Schelling’s philosophy against (...)
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  7. The Ethos of Critique in German Idealism.Joan Steigerwald - 2015 - In Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson & Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives From Science and Technology Studies. Cham: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 310. Springer.
     
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    Goethe's Morphology: Urphänomene and Aesthetic Appraisal. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2002 - Journal of the History of Biology 35 (2):291 - 328.
    This paper examines the relationships between Goethe's morphology and his ideas on aesthetic appraisal. Goethe's science of morphology was to provide the method for making evident pure phenomena [Urphänomene], for making intuitable the necessary laws behind the perceptible forms and formation of living nature, through a disciplined perception. This emphasis contrasted with contemporary studies of generation, which focused upon hidden formative processes. It was his views on aesthetic appraisal that informed these epistemological precepts of his science. His study of antique (...)
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    Jennifer Mensch. Kant's Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy. ix + 246 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $45. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2014 - Isis 105 (4):848-849.
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    (1 other version)Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine . Romanticism and the Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xxii + 345. ISBN 0-521-35602-4, £40.00, $59.50 ; 0-521-35685-7, £15.00, $19.95. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 1991 - British Journal for the History of Science 24 (3):384-386.
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    (1 other version)Chenxi Tang. The Geographic Imagination of Modernity: Geography, Literature, and Philosophy in German Romanticism. x + 356 pp., illus., bibls., index. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. $65. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2010 - Isis 101 (3):654-655.
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    (1 other version)F. Scott Scribner. Matters of Spirit: J. G. Fichte and the Technological Imagination. x + 205 pp., bibl., index. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. $60. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2012 - Isis 103 (1):202-203.
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    Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication. Timothy Lenoir. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 1999 - Isis 90 (4):858-859.
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    (1 other version)Jocelyn Holland . Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter on the Science and Art of Nature. xiv + 713 pp., illus., indexes. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2010. $183 .Jocelyn Holland. German Romanticism and Science: The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter. x + 222 pp., index. New York/London: Routledge, 2009. $125. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2012 - Isis 103 (4):785-786.
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    (1 other version)Review of John H. Zammito: The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling[REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2019 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (1):205-208.
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    (1 other version)Peter Hanns Reill, vitalizing nature in the enlightenment. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of california press, 2005. Pp. X+388. Isbn: 0-520-24135-5. $55.00, £35.95. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2007 - British Journal for the History of Science 40 (2):292-293.
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    Robert J. Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002; Astrida Orle Tantillo, The Will to Create: Goethe's Philosophy of Nature. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2003 - Metascience 12 (3):305-311.
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    Science without laws: model systems, cases, exemplary narratives - Edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and N. Norton Wise. [REVIEW]Joan Steigerwald - 2009 - Centaurus 51 (2):172-173.
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