Introduction: Kant’s Organicism
1. Generation and the Task of Classification
Mechanism and the Principle of Life
2. Buffon’s Natural History and the Founding of Organicism
Hales and the Physiology of Plants
Maupertuis, Buffon, and the Problem of Form
Natural History and the History of Nature
3. Kant and the Problem of Origin
From Original Acquisition to the Epigenesis of Knowledge
Concepts and Objects: Kant’s Letter to Herz, 1772
5. From the Unity of Reason to the Unity of Race
A Germ of Reason and a Germ for Race
6. Empirical Psychology in Tetens and Kant
Epigenesis and Evolution in Tetens’s Philosophical Essays
From Empirical Psychology to a Transcendental Theory of Imagination
Transcendental Philosophy and the Physiology of Pure Reason
7. Kant’s Architectonic: System and Organism in the Critique of Pure Reason
The Doctrine of Method: The Bauplan of the System
The Transcendental Deduction: The Bauplan at Work
Organic Logic: A Cautionary Tale