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Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives /
This text features investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes
- Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts
- Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and don'ts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman
- Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston
- How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy
- On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas
- Functions and normativity
- Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin
- The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen
- Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies
- Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light
- Functions and classification
- Being for : a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano
- Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi
- A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
- Evolutionary perspectives
- The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes
- Innovation and population / Tim Lewens
- The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs
- Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.