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• In cultures which have an teleological world view, the ends of things are seen as providing the meaning for all that has happened or that occurs. If you think about history as a timeline with a beginning and end, in a teleological view of the world and of history, the meaning and value of all historical events derives from their ends or purposes, that is, all events in history are future-directed. Aristotle's thought is manifestly teleological; of the four "reasons" or "causes" (aitia ) for things, the most important reason is the "purpose" or "end" for which that thing was made or done. The Christian world view is fundamentally teleological; all of history is directed towards the completion of history at the end of time. ... Modern European culture is overwhelmingly teleological in its experience of history, that is, we see history and experience as entirely future-directed. This, in part, is responsible for the proliferation of alternatives, for in a teleological world view, history has potentially an infinite number of options and alternatives, and this proliferation of alternatives is primarily responsible for the crisis of modernity. ...

• The Teleological Argument.
• The Teleological Argument.
• The teleological argument, or argument from design, is the argument from the apparent order in the universe to the existence of a god that created the universe with a specific purpose in mind. Like the cosmological argument, the teleological argument can be traced back as far as Plato.
• The teleological argument offered by Cleanthes, one of Hume’s characters in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, is among the clearest of its kind. ...

• 2720 A Modern View of Teleological Explanation.
• Francisco Ayala, “Teleological explanations in evolutionary biology,” Philosophy of Science (March 1970):1-15.
• teleological explanations are appropriate and indispensable in biology, and are fully compatible with causal accounts. ...
• 3 categories of appropriate teleological explanations:.
• “Teleological mechanisms in living organisms are biological adaptations. ...

• Teleological explanations.
• Teleological explanations add cognitive variables .

• Paley's Teleological Argument For .
• "(Romans 1:19-20) I)Teleological Argument: i. )The basic premise, of all teleological arguments for the existence of God, is that the world exhibits an intelligent purpose based on experience from nature such as its order, unity, coherency, design and complexity. ... )Paley's teleological argument is based on an analogy: Watchmaker is to watch as God is to universe. ... II)Paley's Teleological Argument: 1. ...

• Teleological Ethics.

• Teleological Functionalism: .
• More specifically, the dissertation is intended to help justify an appeal to teleological functions in the philosophy of mind. ...
• , teleological functionalism. ...
• I argue that there are two legitimate ways of understanding teleological function in this context. ...
• I argue that selectionist construals of teleological function are appropriate when, roughly, the project is that of explaining why extant features are present in the distribution and form that they are. In contrast, systems-theoretic construals of teleological function are appropriate when, roughly, the project is that of explaining how these features work. ...
• A systems-theoretic (and more specifically, a structural) teleological functional approach to the problem of intentionality, because it is importantly ahistorical, has the merit of incorporating normative considerations into the philosophy of mind without rendering the causal efficacy of intentional states unnecessarily mysterious. It also has the merit of allowing for those attributions of teleological function in biology that would not be overturned by new evolutionary information regarding selection history. Adherence solely to an etiological construal of teleological function is too restrictive in both domains. ...

• On McCormick and Teleological Morality .
• Finally, this essay suggests some considerations against adopting the teleological morality advocated by McCormick. ...

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• The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts.
• Full Title: The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts .
• Description: Binswanger defends the view that living things are teleological, which is to say that "there is a is a fundamental mode of causation common to all types of living action, whether conscious of non-conscious: living action is goal-directed. ...
• The origin of teleological concepts .
• The teleological vs. ...
• The economy of the teleological approach .
• The theoretic power of the teleological approach.

• A Teleological Hypothesis about a Machine.
• How is it that we can use a teleological perspective to guide research in the laboratory? Consider the basics of the scientific method: you make observations; the observations, in the context of background belief, lead to a tentative explanation called the hypothesis; the hypothesis is often then formed with the help of "if,then" logic that allows for testing; the results of the testing then can be viewed as supporting the hypothesis (positive evidence) or weakening (even refuting) the hypothesis (contrary evidence). ...
• And as an added bonus, IC can help us gage the likelihood that non-teleological forces were behind the origin of such a machine (1,2).
• Science, on the other hand, is defined by its attempt to understand all biotic reality in purely non-teleological terms. ...
• A specific prediction about the world of the cell from a teleological perspective. ...
• The "random mess" expectation makes more sense in light of non-teleological views, which begin with the random mess of the prebiotic soup and not the watch-type reality Paley once invoked. ...
• If so, what is enolase doing there? A non-teleological view gives me no reason to expect a logical reason for it being there, as evolution doesn't have to be logical, in fact, it often simply jury-rigs hodgepodge things together. ...
• Or even if true, one might easily fit such a finding in a non-teleological view. But what matters is this example demonstrates a teleological approach CAN be used to guide lab research and, along the way, generate insight into the living world. ...

• terms defined : Teleological argument .
• A teleological argument (or an argument from design) is an argument for the existence of God. ...
• A teleological argument (or an argument from design) is an argument for the existence of God. ...
• Thus, whether or not God exists, scientists tend to view the teleological argument as a poor argument in favor of His or Her existence. ...
• Here is a popular proof by contradiction: Suppose that there is an intelligent artificer, by the teleological argument. Well that artificer is surely more complex and purposeful than whatever artifacts inspired the teleological argument, so the first premise is at least as true of the artificer than of the artifact in question. ...
• One of the most recent reincarnations of the teleological argument is the so-called "argument from the fine-tuning of the cosmological constants". ...
• The most famous proponent of the teleological argument is William Paley (1743-1805), who framed the argument in terms of a watch. ...
• Before that, David Hume presented arguments both for and against the teleological argument in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The character Philo, summarizing the teleological argument, uses an example of a watch; thus Hume arguably makes Paley's key point before Paley himself. Philo isn't satisfied with the teleological argument, however, and attempts a number of interesting refutations, including one that arguably forshadows Darwin's theory. In the end, however, Hume has Philo agree that the teleological argument is valid. ... ) claims that, although Hume was ultimately dissatisfied with the teleological argument, his cultural context prevented him from taking any of the alternatives seriously. ...

• Teleological argument.
• Redirected from Argument from design A teleological argument (or an argument from design) is an argument for the existence of God. ...
• Thus, whether or not God exists, scientists tend to view the teleological argument as a poor argument in favor of His or Her existence. ...
• Here is a popular proof by contradiction: Suppose that there is an intelligent artificer, by the teleological argument. Well that artificer is surely more complex and purposeful than whatever artifacts inspired the teleological argument, so the first premise is at least as true of the artificer than of the artifact in question. ...
• One of the most recent reincarnations of the teleological argument is the so-called "argument from the fine-tuning of the cosmological constants". ...
• The most famous proponent of the teleological argument is William Paley (1743-1805), who framed the argument in terms of a watch. ...
• Before that, David Hume presented arguments both for and against the teleological argument in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The character Philo, summarizing the teleological argument, uses an example of a watch; thus Hume arguably makes Paley's key point before Paley himself. Philo is not satisfied with the teleological argument, however, and attempts a number of interesting refutations, including one that arguably forshadows Darwin's theory. In the end, however, Hume has Philo agree that the teleological argument is valid. ... ) claims that, although Hume was ultimately dissatisfied with the teleological argument, his cultural context prevented him from taking any of the alternatives seriously. ...

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