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Progressive teleology
Philosophical Studies 172 (11):2931-2954 (2015)
Abstract
I argue for a teleological account of events in progress. Details aside, the proposal is that events in progress are teleological processes. It follows from this proposal that final causes are ubiquitous: anything happening at any time is an event with a telosAuthor's Profile
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Partial Manifestations.Nick Kroll - 2016 - In Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Dispositions. pp. 85-91.
Dispositions without Teleology.David Manley & Ryan Wasserman - 2017 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 10.
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Teleological Explanations: An Etiological Analysis of Goals and Functions.Larry Wright - 1976 - University of California Press.
What Would Teleological Causation Be?John Hawthorne & Daniel Nolan - 2006 - In Metaphysical essays. New York: Clarendon Press.
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