Teleology, explaining the existence of a feature on the basis of what it does, is usually
considered as an obstacle or misconception in evolution education. Researchers often use …

Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic
approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and …

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology
are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's …

Current books on evolutionary theory all seem to take for granted the fact that students find
evolution easy to understand when actually, from a psychological perspective, it is a rather …

Background Teleology is one of the critical aspects of students' intuitive concepts about
living beings and, specifically, their evolution. This cognitive bias imposes a substantial …

Teleology is a mode of explanation in which something is explained by appealing to a
particular result or consequence that it brings about, and it has its roots in the philosophies …

One of the most important things that the Darwinian revolution affected is the previous
teleological thinking. In particular, the attribution of functions to various entities of the natural …

En cierto modo, el primer atisbo de la tesis según la cual toda imputación causal presupone,
justiicadamente o no, un vínculo nómico, puede remontarse a David Hume (1939 [1748], p …

Research has shown that children usually provide teleological explanations for the features
of organisms and artifacts, from a very early age (3–4 years old). However, there is no …

We trace the history of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, and of genetic Darwinism
generally, with a view to showing why, even in its current versions, it can no longer serve as …