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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Problem of Teleology; 3 Intentions and the Functions of Artifacts; 4 Basic Positions in Philosophy of Science: Hempel and Nagel; 5 The Etiological View; 6 The Dispositional View; Part III Self-Reproducing Systems; 7 Artifacts and Organisms; 8 Feedback Mechanisms and Their Beneficiaries; 9 Having a Good; 10 What Functions Explain; Notes; Bibliography; Index.