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What functions explain : functional explanation and self-reproducing systems /
This 2001 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 tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Functions and intentions
- Introduction
- The problem of teleology
- Intentions and the functions of artifacts
- Part II: Analysis of functional explanation
- Basic positions in philosophy of science: Hempel and Nagel
- Etiological view
- Dispositional view
- Part III: Self-reproducing systems
- Artifacts and organisms
- Feedback mechanisms and their beneficiaries
- Having a good
- What functions explain.