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Spinoza and Teleology

At this stage we should consider a couple of objections to such a teleo-mechanistic account, the first of which comes from Jaegwon Kim, who claims that it is not at all clear that teleological and mechanistic explanations can happily.
Two essays: "Mechanism, Purpose, and Explanatory Exclusion" (1989) and from "The Non-reductivist's Troubles with Mental Causation," in Heil and Mele's Mental Causation (pp. 189-210). Kim is not the first to argue for such exclusion, though he may be the most successful. See e.g. Charles Taylor's Kim forcefully argues for the "principle of explanatory exclusion" according to which "no event can be given more than one complete and independent explanation" (1997, 258). According to Kim, if mechanistic explanations are entirely sufficient without any appeal to teleological concepts, teleological descriptions are explanatorily bankrupt, at best. If this principle of explanatory exclusion is reasonable, it would seem that......

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