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Michael Ruse, “On Purpose” (Princeton UP, 2017)

Published 8 years, 2 months ago
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Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Immanuel Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and while Darwin’s theory of natural selection profoundly shook the idea, it was unable to kill it. In fact, the belief in teleology seems to be making a comeback...
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