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

Functions

New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology
Herausgeber: Ariew, Andre; Perlman, Mark; Cummins, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In explaining aspects of the natural world, including the aspects of mind, scientists have frequently used the concept of function. But what are functions? Here, 15 leading scholars of philosophy of psychology and philosophy of biology present new essays on functions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780199255818
• ISBN-10: 0199255814
• Artikelnr.: 22285341

Autorenporträt

Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis Mark Perlman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Western Oregon University Andre Ariew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island

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