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Spinoza and Teleology

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August 3, 2015

 

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189-210). Kim is not the first to argue for such exclusion, though he may be the most successful. See e.g. Charles Taylor's Kim forcefully argues for the "principle of explanatory exclusion" according to which "no event can be given more than one complete and independent explanation" (1997, 258). According to Kim, if mechanistic explanations are entirely sufficient without any appeal to teleological concepts, teleological descriptions are explanatorily bankrupt, at best...
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According to Kim, if mechanistic explanations are entirely sufficient without any appeal to teleological concepts, teleological descriptions are explanatorily bankrupt, at best. If this principle of explanatory exclusion is reasonable, it would seem that Spinoza's commitment to mechanism would force him to relinquish teleology...
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