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Boyle's teleological mechanism and the myth of immanent teleology

机译：博伊尔的目的论机制与内在目的论的神话

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According to recent commentators, medieval natural philosophers endorsed immanent teleology, the view that natural agents possess immanent active powers to achieve certain ends. Moreover, some scholars have argued that Robert Boyle, despite his intentions, failed to eliminate immanent teleology from his natural philosophy. I argue in this paper that it is not at all clear that immanent teleology was widely endorsed in the medieval period. Moreover, I argue that a proper understanding of immanent teleology, and why it was rejected by mainstream medieval natural philosophers, reveals that Boyle did not fail to eliminate immanent teleology from his natural philosophy. I conclude that any attempt to describe the break between medieval and early modern natural philosophy in terms of a break with immanent teleology is likely not on target.
机译：根据最近的评论家的说法，中世纪的自然哲学家赞成内在的目的论，即自然主体具有内在的实现某些目的的积极力量的观点。此外，一些学者认为，尽管有罗伯特·博伊尔的意图，但他未能从其自然哲学中消除内在的目的论。我在本文中指出，尚不清楚内在的目的论在中世纪是否得到广泛认可。此外，我认为对内在目的论的正确理解以及为何它被中世纪主流自然哲学家所拒绝，这表明博伊尔并没有从其自然哲学中消除内在目的论。我得出的结论是，用内在的目的论来描述中世纪和早期现代自然哲学之间的突破的任何尝试都可能没有达到目标。

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