Two years later his story " Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large " won a Nebula and Hugo Awards.
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See Teleology for a discussion of the old notion that someone ( God ? ) placed everything herre for a purpose.
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The presence of real or apparent teleology in explanations of natural selection is a controversial aspect of the philosophy of biology.
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Purpose, as being both in the beginning and the end, simply rejects teleology, and addresses the time reversal problem.
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The goal ( final cause ) and formal cause are biologist, such teleology describes adaptation under the pressure of natural selection.
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Spinoza also rejects teleology, and suggests that the causal nature along with an originary orientation of the universe is everything we encounter.
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Nevertheless, biologists still frequently write in a way which can be read as implying teleology even if that is not the intention.
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And this philosophy of history, known as teleology, has contaminated the contemporary " isms ", including classical liberalism.
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Nevertheless, biologists still frequently write in a way which can be read as implying teleology, even though that is not their intention.
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Meanwhile, evolutionary theory's natural selection brought the Copernican Revolution into biology and eventuated in the first conceptual alternative to vitalism and teleology.
