Martineau, Cobbe, and teleological progressivism

Post-Progressivism and the Body of Writing

Populism and Progressivism as Constitutional Categories

Teleological understanding of actions

All organisms pursue goals that promote their survival and reproduction. For many species, the small repertoire of basic drive-related goals and behavioural means to achieve them are genetically specified and are triggered by appropriate releasing stimuli. Other species, most notably, but not exclusively, mammals and birds, have much more flexible ways to accomplish their goals, tailoring their...

Teleological computer graphics modeling

Computer graphics consists of two main activities: modeling, which is the science of making mathematical abstractions of objects, and rendering or visualization, in which images are made from the mathematical abstractions. In this talk, teleological modeling is presented, a developing approach for creating abstractions and mathematical representations of physically realistic time-dependent obje...

The Teleological Argument

William Paley was an English churchman whose writings in defense of Christianity were widely read in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His most important work is Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1801). In this work Paley argues for the intelligent design of the universe based upon its similarity to objec...