teleological

• “We see this over-arching teleological from the Greek word telos or goal understanding of the human good present in the following statement that De Roover makes concerning the teaching of St. Antonino:”

  Corporation Christendom Part Two

• “Scanlon (1998) uses friendship to argue against what he calls teleological conceptions of values presupposed by consequentialism.”

  Friendship

• “The phenomenon is explicable only in "teleological" terms.”

  Deep Homology and Longevity

• “It was ultimately replaced with Newtonian mechanics, which was not interested in teleological categories but instead dealt with observations on a quantitative level.”

  Are Stereochemical Explanations Causally Sufficient?

• “FLE is an attempt to limit the number of variables inherent in teleological arguments.”

  A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer)

• “Hey Krauss, do you believe in teleological evolution?”

  Big ideas take time

• “On one account, call it teleological utilitarianism, pleasant mental states are the ultimate intrinsic good, and human minds are just convenient loci of these desiderata.”

  Happiness Redux

• “Cause is relevant to ID, as it wishes to describe the process of evolution in teleological terms.”

  Clear Thinking?

• “I guess one way to describe these differences is in teleological terms.”

  Another Nobel Laureate

• “We say that the voluntaristic theory, the interpretation of our real attitudes, in short teleological knowledge, alone can account for the value and right of phenomenalistic psychology and it thus seems unfair to raise the objection of 'double bookkeeping.”

  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.

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