Grice on the mechanism-teleology distinction

Further to Grice on 'the devil of scientism'. How to reconcile, if at all, teleology with mechanism?

Etc.

JLS

From the OED:

1867 Michigan Univ. Mag 1 86

Neither mechanicism which places the cause of all disease in the primary
disturbance of mechanical conditions and forces, or chemicism, which places such
disturbance in the chemical relation of particles..can contain the exclusive
truth.

--- Come on, we are not judges, 'the truth and nothing but the truth'?

1882 Mind 7 248

Teleology was, in some respects, a falling-off from the rigid mechanicism
first taught by the prae-Socratic schools.

--- so now you see why Sedley needs the defending!

1908 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 18 519

The doctrine became, under the form of hylozoism, pure materialism and
mechanicism.

I loved that! Note it's hylozoism, not the common-or-garden Platonising,
'hylomorphism'.

1962 W. STARK Fund. Forms of Social Thought II. xii. 176

A fresh high-water mark of mechanicism was reached in the eighth decade of
the nineteenth century.

---- a breath of fresh air?

1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 115

But if to avoid the limitations of Kuryowicz's method, we have to admit that
a form passes arbitrarily from one function to another, not taking into
account the facts of polarization, attraction, etc., then we fall into
mechanicism.

--- Strictly, we fall into Kuryowiczian mechanicism, from which it's pretty
easy to recover (unlike Humpty Dumpty's wall).

1990 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 51 610

Goethe's..reaction against mathematicism and mechanicism.