Justin Garson (City University of New York Hunter College)

What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The biological functions debate is a perennial topic in the philosophy of science. This accessible and jargon-free book presents an innovative new approach to biological functions and applies it to contemporary problems in philosophy of mind, philosophy of medicine and psychiatry, philosophy of biology, and biology itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781108460026
• ISBN-10: 110846002X
• Artikelnr.: 60718489

Autorenporträt

Justin Garson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of The Biological Mind: A Philosophical Introduction (2014) and A Critical Overview of Biological Functions (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Background: 1. The strangeness of functions
2. Function and selection
3. Feedback and functions
Part II. Theory: 4. An explosion of selection processes
5. Selection and construction
6. A generalized selected effects theory of function
7. Proper functions are proximal functions
8. When functions do wrong
Part III. Applications: 9. Function pluralism
10. What are mechanisms?
11. What are mental disorders?
12. A new kind of teleosemantics
A programmatic epilogue.