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Reto Gubelmann
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Dr.
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Gubelmann
First name
Reto
Email
reto.gubelmann@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 75 25
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PublicationMechanism Versus Organism: A Loosely Kantian Perspective and Its Implications for BioengineeringBuilding on the work of Immanuel Kant and researchers working in his tradition (but without getting lost in exegetical details that are immaterial for this volume), we discuss a notion of the living organism based on its formal teleological structure, contrast it with mechanistic objects, and draw some consequences for the notion of bioengineering. Bioengineering, in our understanding, is close to a contradictio in adiecto: either something is alive, which implies substantial autonomy in its inner functional organization, or it is engineered, which means that the engineer continuously determines the thing’s functional organization.