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Humans, elephants, diamonds and gold: patterns of intentional design in Girolamo Cardano's natural philosophy

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Distancing himself from both Aristotelian and Epicurean models of natural change, and resisting delusions of anthropocentric grandeur, Cardano advanced a theory of teleology centred on the notion of non-human selfhood. In keeping with Plato, he argued that nat... ...