Teleology n. : The doctrine of the final causes of things

Teleology n. : the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.

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Taxonomy
teleology, teleological, final cause, Plato and Aristotle, design, Biology, Cybernetics, Philosophy of science, Larry, Wright, free encyclopedia, history, organ, natures, sentences, Oxford University Press, school of thought, metaphysical naturalism.

Defination from the web:
teleology may be identified with Aristotelianism and the scholastic tradition. ... Later teleology was explored in detail by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgement, and was fundamental to the speculative philosophy of Hegel. ...