| Abbreviations and the Use of Translations | 15 |
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| Part I: Preliminary Investigations | 17 |
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| Chapter 1. Motivations | 19 |
| Introduction | 19 |
| §. 1. Preliminary Sketch of the Telic Structure of Kant | 19 |
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| 21 | 19 |
| §. | 19 |
| 25 | 19 |
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| 29 | 19 |
| §. 1.4. Teleology and the | 19 |
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| §. 1.5. The Unity of Reason | 36 |
| §. 2. The Teleological Tradition Before an d After Kant | 40 |
| §. 2.1. Teleology in the Philosophies of Kant’s German Predecessors | 46 |
| §. 2.2. The Legacy of Kant’s Teleology of Reason in Fichte | 49 |
| §. 3. Current Views on the Role of Teleology in Kant’s Cr itical Philosophy | 58 |
| §. 3.1. Reactions to the PopularView | 63 |
| §. 3.2. Teleology in special studies of Kant’s philosophy | 67 |
| Conclusion | 72 |
| Chapter 2. Teleology: Rudiments of a Theory | 73 |
| Introduction | 73 |
| Teleology: Not Reducible to a Pattern of Behavior | 76 |
| Two Examples of this Tendency in Studies of the History of Philosohpy: Bennett and Couturat | 80 |
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| 84 | 80 |
| §. 1.1. Teleological and Non-Teleological Inferences | 88 |
| §. 1.2. Traditional Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence | 91 |
| §. 1.3. Concluding Reflections | 96 |
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| 97 | 96 |
| §. 2.1. Maupertuis and the Universal Teleology of Nature | 104 |
| §. 2.2. Purposes as Laws of Behavior | 111 |
| §. 2.3. Skepticism Regarding Explanation | 113 |
| §. 2.4. Teleological Explanations: Concluding Reflections | 115 |
| §. 3. The Essential and Inessential Characteristics of Teleological Entities | 119 |
| Part II: The Teleology of Human Knowledge | 125 |
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| Introduction to Part II | 127 |
| Chapter 3. The Historical Roots of Kant’s Concept of Exp | 127 |
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| Introduction | 129 |
| §. 1. Wolff’s Ontological Logic and the “acumen pervidendi universalia in singularibus” | 133 |
| §. 1.1. Wolff’s Logic of Experience | 135 |
| §. 1.2. The Wolffian Roots of Kant’s Categories | 139 |
| §. 1.3. The Skill of Perceiving the Universal in the Particular | 142 |
| §. 1.4. Wolff and Kant on the Possibility of Experience | 143 |
| §. 2. Adolph Friedrich Hoffmann and Christian August Crusius | 146 |
| §. 2.1. The Logic of Experience According to Hoffmann and Crusius | 153 |
| §. 2.2. The Possibility of Experience and the Limits of Human Knowledge | 157 |
| §. 3. Anticipating Kant’s Account of Experience | 159 |
| Conclusion: The Nature of Kant’s Advance | 163 |
| Chapter 4. Teleology in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic | 164 |
| Introduction | 164 |
| §. 1. The Problem of the “Critique”: How are Synthetic Judgments a priori Possible? | 165 |
| §. 1.1. The Need for Synthetic Judgments a priori and the Structure of Knowledge | 168 |
| §. 1.2. Preliminary Outline of the Argument of the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic | 177 |
| §. 2. Space and Time as Grounds of the Formal Perfection of Sensible Objects | 183 |
| §. 2.1. The Objective Formal Perfection of Space | 187 |
| §. 2.2. The Transcendental Aesthetic: Comments on the Text | 191 |
| §. 3. The Transcendental Analytic | 193 |
| §. 3.1. The Metaphysical Deduction | 194 |
| §. 3.2. The Transcendental Deduction | 197 |
| §. 3.3. The Deduction in the B-edition | 201 |
| §. 4. Summary | 212 |
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