What Functions Explain Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems |
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| Author:
| McLaughlin, Peter |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-15285-6 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital download and online |
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Book Description:
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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 provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.
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 provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.