Andre Ariew / Robert Cummins / Mark Perlman (eds.)

Functions

New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Review quote:
a richly varied collection of essays which ... provides the reader with the opportunity for a sustained examination of the central issues concerning functions and their role in biology and psychology

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199255801
• ISBN-10: 0199255806
• Artikelnr.: 21649762

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* History of Teleology and functional explanation: from Socrates to
Darwin and Beyond
* 2: Michael Ruse: Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking
* Analysis: Functional Explanations Today
* 4: Ruth Millikan: Biofunctions: Two Paradigms
* 5: Valerie Gray Hardcastle: On the Normativity of Functions
* 6: Robert Cummins: Neo-Teleology
* 7: William Wimsatt: Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference
* 8: David J. Buller: Function and Design Revisited
* 9: Peter H. Schwartz: The Continuing Usefulness Account of Proper
Function
* Teleosemantics
* 11: Berent Enc: Indeterminacy of Function Attributions
* 12: D. M. Walsh: Brentano's Chestnuts
* Related Issues
* 14: Colin Allen: Real Traits, Real Functions?
* 15: Karen Neander: Types of Traits: Function, structure, and homology
in the classification of traits
* Biographies, Index