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What Functions Explain : Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems.
This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural funct...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511046247 0511046243 |