Ontogeny and Ontology in Schelling’s Naturphilosophie

Abstract

Philosophies of Nature after Schelling has two objectives. First, to argue that a philosophy of nature becomes contemporarily viable once lazy readings of it as pro or anti science are dismissed, and more nuanced and philosophical accounts of the materials nature philosophy draws on and the conclusions it reaches are provided. Second, to reject a view of Schelling’s philosophical oeuvre that does not make the Naturphilosophie, in Schelling’s own terms, grounding. Should both succeed, Schelling’s overall philosophical strategy is a contemporary one.