Ina Goy

Beijing Normal University
University of Tuebingen
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    Kant on Proofs for God’s Existence (edited book)
    De Gruyter. 2023.
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    13. Die Teleologie der organischen Natur (§§ 64–68)
    In Otfried Höffe (ed.), Immanuel Kant. "Kritik der Urteilskraft", Akademie Verlag / De Gruyter. pp. 223-239. 2008.
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    Kant on Nonhuman Animals and God
    In John J. Callanan & Lucy Allais (eds.), Kant and Animals, Oxford University Press. pp. 89-104. 2020.
    This chapter examines Kant's account of the nature of nonhuman and human animals in the "Critique of the Power of Judgement". It discusses how Kant thought that a complete account of the forms of explanation commit one to belief in God. It concludes, firstly, that Kant's account implies an unhealthy anthropocentrism and an Enlightenment prejudice in the form of the overestimation of reason, and secondly, that the Kantian model of God lacks one of the main characteristics of the Christian concept…Read more
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    'All Is Leaf'. Goethe's Plant Philosophy and Poetry
    In Cécilia Bognon-Küss & Charles T. Wolfe (eds.), Philosophy of Biology Before Biology, Routledge. pp. 146-169. 2019.
    In "The Metamorphosis of Plants" (1790) and the related didactic poem (1798) Goethe describes the generation and development of plants as six metamorphoses of the primal plant and its organ, the leaf. In a first step, I will try to analyze the nature of the primal plant and its organ, the leaf. Is the primal plant and its organ, the leaf, an idea or does it consist in matter? If it is an idea, is it the idea of all plants (the plant), the idea of a particular species of plants, or the idea of th…Read more
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    Kant on Formative Power
    Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience 2 26-49. 2012.
    The notion of a formative power is one of the most obscure in Kant’s theory of biology. In section I of the paper, I will provide a list of all passages in which Kant uses the term, claiming that the older meaning of ‘formative power’ in Kant’s writings is an epistemological one, whereas the biological meaning of the term appears not before the mid-1780s. I will present and discuss some of these passages in closer detail, and will give a precise interpretation of the most central passage in §65 …Read more
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    Immanuel Kant on the Moral Feeling of Respect
    In Pablo Muchnik (ed.), Rethinking Kant, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 156-179. 2018.
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    Die Teleologie der Natur (§§ 64–68)
    In Otfried Höffe (ed.), Immanuel Kant. "Kritik der Urteilskraft", Akademie Verlag / De Gruyter. 2008.
    A commentary on §§ 64-68 of Kant's "Critique of the Power of Judgment". Nach einer allgemeinen Definition von zweckmäßigen Gegenständen und deren Binnendifferenzierung in künstliche und natürliche Zwecke, setzt Kant in § 64 mit einer vorläufigen Definition des eigentlichen Untersuchungsgegenstandes ein. Dinge sind genau dann Naturzwecke, wenn sie von sich selbst Ursache und Wirkung sind. Kant veranschaulicht diese Definition am Beispiel eines organischen Gegenstandes: an einem Baum. In § 65 soll…Read more
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    Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
    In Marcus Willaschek, Jürgen Stolzenberg, Georg Mohr & Stefano Bacin (eds.), Kant-Lexikon, De Gruyter. 2015.
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    Virtue and Sensibility (6:399–409)
    In Andreas Trampota, Oliver Sensen & Jens Timmermann (eds.), Kant’s “Tugendlehre”. A Comprehensive Commentary, Walter De Gruyter. 2013.
    A commentary on Sections XII–XVI of the “Introduction to the Doctrine of Virtue”.
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    The Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
    Studi Kantiani 28 65-88. 2015.
    The antinomy of teleological judgment is one of the most controversial passages of Kant’s "Critique of the Power of Judgment". Having developed the idea of an explanation of organized beings by mechanical and teleological natural laws in §§ 61-68, in §§ 69-78 Kant raises the question of whether higher order mechanical and teleological natural laws, which unify the particular empirical laws of organized beings, might pose an antinomy of conflicting principles within the power of judgment. I will …Read more
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    Was Aristotle the ‘Father’ of the Epigenesis Doctrine?
    History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (2): 28. 2018.
    Was Aristotle the ‘father’ and founder of the epigenesis doctrine? Historically, I will argue, this question must be answered with ‘no’. Aristotle did not initiate and had no access to a debate that described itself in terms of ‘epigenesis’ and ‘preformation’, and thus cannot be considered the ‘father’ or founder of the epigenesis-preformation controversy in a literal sense. But many ancient accounts of reproduction and embryological development contain analogies to what early modern scientist c…Read more
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    Ein textnaher, fortlaufender Kommentar zu Kants Lehre von organisierten Wesen in der „Kritik der Urteilskraft“ ist ein Desiderat sowohl der Kantforschung als auch der Philosophie und Geschichte der Lebenswissenschaften. Auch gibt es bisher nur wenige Lesarten, die Kants Philosophie der Biologie im Ganzen erschließen und versuchen, sie in die vielschichtigen historischen Kontexte der frühneuzeitlichen Naturforschung einzuordnen. Das vorliegende Buch schließt diese Lücken. Es verteidigt die Thesen…Read more
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    Epigenetic Theories: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and Immanuel Kant
    In Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 43-60. 2014.
    In this paper, I investigate the relation of Kant's theory of biology to epigenetic accounts of organic generation and development. In the literature, a dispute about similarities between Blumenbach's epigenetic account and Kant dominated the debate for many years (see Lenoir 1980, 1981, and 1982, 17–34, Richards 2000; 2002, 207–37; Look 2006, and van den Berg 2009). Some more recent interpreters claim that Wolff's, more than Blumenbach's account plays the pivotal role in the development of a vi…Read more
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    Kant's Theory of Biology (edited book)
    De Gruyter. 2014.
    During the last twenty years, Kant's theory of biology has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and developed into a field which is growing rapidly in importance within Kant studies. The volume presents fifteen interpretative essays written by experts working in the field, covering topics from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century biological theories, the development of the philosophy of biology in Kant's writings, the theory of organisms in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, an…Read more
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    Immanuel Kant über das moralische Gefühl der Achtung
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 61 (3). 2007.
    Die Abhandlung „Immanuel Kant über das moralische Gefühl der Achtung“ legt nach einer Einführung in den historischen und werkgeschichtlichen Hintergrund wesentliche systematische Züge des moralischen Gefühls der Achtung dar. Es wird gezeigt, dass das apriorische Gefühl der Achtung einerseits von allen anderen empirischen Gefühlen unterschieden, dennoch aber ein Gefühl ist und in seiner spezifischen Sonderstellung drei bedeutende moralphilosophische Funktionen übernehmen kann: eine evaluative, ei…Read more
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    Kant’s Theory of Biology and the Argument from Design
    In Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 203-220. 2014.
    In this paper, I treat the question of whether and in what regard Kant's theory of biology contains a version of the argument from design, which is the question of whether Kant considers the purposive order of organized nature as a physicotheological proof for the existence of God, and in turn, the existence of God as the supersensible ground for the teleological order of organized nature. As an introduction to the topic, I name traditional examples of the argument from design (section 1). I the…Read more
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    Momente der Freiheit
    Kant-Studien Ergänzungshefte 193 149-174. 2016.
    Among the most important controversies about the form and content of the table of the categories of freedom are the questions, first, what the table of the categories of freedom is about; second, if the categories of freedom have moral content or if they can be morally indifferent; and third, if the categories of freedom are a priori unconditioned or a posteriori conditioned concepts. I will argue, first, that the categories of freedom thematize particular aspects of determining grounds of human…Read more
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    Kant's Theory of Biology (Introduction)
    In Eric Watkins & Ina Goy (eds.), Kant's Theory of Biology, De Gruyter. pp. 1-22. 2014.