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comparative philosophical perspectives

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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
312

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes
Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts
Changing the mission of theories of teleology : do's and don't's for thinking about function / Mark Perlman
Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston
How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy
On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas
Functions and normativity
Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin
The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen
Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies
Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light
Functions and classification
Being for a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano
Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi
A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
Evolutionary perspectives
The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes
Innovation and population / Tim Lewens
The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs
Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, MA
Series
Vienna series in theoretical biology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
570.1
Library of Congress
QH331 .F897 2009, QH331.F897 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
312

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL21559505M
ISBN 13
9780262113212
LCCN
2008031061
OCLC/WorldCat
237047985
LibraryThing
8787556
Goodreads
6680638

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OL16947235W

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