I never was abke to establish whether Bergson's finalists were strawmen, or whether telos-minded biologists were just bad/dogmatic at applying teleology back then. (these days they mostly don't exist.)
Bergson's level of analysis seems to be the correct one. Finalism of organs w.r.t. organisms, and of species w.r.t. niches, but mechanism(?) of the process which originates particular species or particular organs
This is good.
I never was abke to establish whether Bergson's finalists were strawmen, or whether telos-minded biologists were just bad/dogmatic at applying teleology back then. (these days they mostly don't exist.)
Bergson's level of analysis seems to be the correct one. Finalism of organs w.r.t. organisms, and of species w.r.t. niches, but mechanism(?) of the process which originates particular species or particular organs