Introduction
Part1: The Emergence of a Science of Life and the Kantian Interest in the Philosophical Problem of Life Before the Third Critique
1. First Conditions for the Concept of Organism. Disruptions: Leibniz, Stahl, and the Critiques of Mechanism
2. Second Condition for the Concept of Organism. Vital Properties and Vitalism: The Animal Economy Model
3. Kant’s Critique of Leibniz, and the Order Issue in the Only Possible Argument...
4. Vital Forces and Epigenesis
Part2: Meeting Purposiveness: The Idea of Critical Philosophy and the Claims of a Science of Life
5. Order and Life in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic
6. The Problem of Species and Variations in the Transformation of Natural History: Kant’s Encounter with the Teleological Question in Biology
7. Life, Soul, and Body (again)
8. The Critical Elucidation of Purposiveness in the Critique of the Power of Judgement: The Lawfulness of the Contingent as Such
Part3: Kant’s Theory of ‘Organism’ and its (Biological and Metaphysical) Implications
9. Kant’s Account of the Organism in the Critique of the Power of Judgement 10. Use of Reflective Teleology: Original Organization, Milieu, and Type
11. The Two Great Laws of Biology and the Parting of the Kantian Ways
12. The Naturalization of Purposiveness and the Critique of Contingency Conclusion