Two Kinds of Mechanical Inexplicability in Kant and Aristotle.

Discusses parallelism in Kant's and Aristotle's accounts of mechanical inexplicability. Critique on the identification of mechanical inexplicability with the non-machine-like character of organisms; Alternative account of Kant's first kind of mechanical inexplicability; Distinction between the two kinds of inexplicability; Description of the corresponding distinction in Aristotle; Relevance of the Kantian and Aristotelian accounts to current advances in biological thinking.