Functions : selection and mechanisms /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2013. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Synthese library ; v.363 Synthese library ; v.363. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9849982 |
Table of Contents:
- Biological Functions and Functional Explanations: Genes, Cells, Organisms and Ecosystems & Functions, Organization and Development in Life Sciences
- Evolution and the Stability of Functional Architectures / William C. Wimsatt
- Mechanism, Emergence, and Miscibility: The Autonomy of Evo-Devo / Denis M. Walsh
- Does Oxygen Have a Function, or Where Should the Regress of Functional Ascriptions Stop in Biology? / Jean Gayon
- Biological Functions and Functional Explanations: Genes, Cells, Organisms and Ecosystems & Functional Pluralism for Biologists?
- How Ecosystem Evolution Strengthens the Case for Functional Pluralism / Frédéric Bouchard
- A General Case for Functional Pluralism / Robert N. Brandon
- Weak Realism in the Etiological Theory of Functions / Philippe Huneman
- Psychology, Philosophy of Mind and Technology: Functions in a Man's World & Metaphysics, Function and Philosophy of Mind
- Functions and Mechanisms: A Perspectivalist View / Carl F. Craver
- Understanding the Sciences Through the Fog of "Functionalism(s)" / Carl Gillett
- Psychology, Philosophy of Mind and Technology: Functions in a Man's World & Philosophy of Technology, Design and Functions
- Artifacts and Organisms: A Case for a New Etiological Theory of Functions / Françoise Longy
- Functions as Epistemic Highlighters: An Engineering Account of Technical, Biological and Other Functions / Pieter E. Vermaas, Wybo Houkes.