Functions
Published on 1. July 2002
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-0-19-824102-7 (ISBN)
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This book is intended for scholars and students of philosophy of biology, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Oxford University Press
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College/higher education
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index
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978-0-19-824102-7 (9780198241027)
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Content
History of teleology and functional explanation - from Socrates to Darwin and beyond: Platonic and Aristotelian roots of teleological arguments in cosmology and biology, Andre Ariew; evolutionary biology and teleological thinking, Michael Ruse; analysis - functional explanations today, Michael Ruse; a rebuttal on functions, Christopher Boorse; biofunctions - two paradigms, Ruth Millikan; on the normativity of functions, Valerie Gray Hardcastle; neo-teleology, Robert Cummins; functional organization, analogy, and inference, William Wimsatt; function and design revisited, David J. Buller; the continuing usefulness account of proper function, Peter H. Schwartz; teleos emantics, Peter H. Schwartz; pagan teleology - adaptational role and the philosophy of mind, Mark Perlman; berent enc - indeterminacy of function attributions, Mark Perlman; Brentano's chestnuts, D.M. Walsh; related issues, human rationality and the unique origin constraint, Mohan Matthen; real traits, real functions?, Colin Allen; types of traits - function, structure, and homology in the classification of traits, Karen Neander.