This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life.
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William J. FitzPatrick is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech.
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Living things stand dramatically apart from other objects in the natural world, and this is due only in part to their unparalleled degree of complexity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organismic welfare, ultimate biological end, natural historical judgments, natural selection background, standard etiological views, facts about causal history, natural selection history, teleological normativity, rival alleles, advanced mental faculties, functional teleology, functional teleological explanation, pushrod valvetrain, green beard altruism, proper biological functioning, reproductive siblings, biological teleology, advanced mental capacities, metaethical project, teleological facts, nonaccidental relations, petal coloration, teleological naturalism, facts about design, etiological accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Living things stand dramatically apart from other objects in the natural world, and this is due only in part to their unparalleled degree of complexity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organismic welfare, ultimate biological end, natural historical judgments, natural selection background, standard etiological views, facts about causal history, natural selection history, teleological normativity, rival alleles, advanced mental faculties, functional teleology, functional teleological explanation, pushrod valvetrain, green beard altruism, proper biological functioning, reproductive siblings, biological teleology, advanced mental capacities, metaethical project, teleological facts, nonaccidental relations, petal coloration, teleological naturalism, facts about design, etiological accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory: Essays in Honour of Philippa Foot by Rosalind Hursthouse in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins in Front Matter, page 229, and Back Matter
- Virtues and Vices (Contemporary Philosophy) by James D. Wallace on page 22, and Back Matter
- The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on page 320, and Back Matter
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- Manifest Activity: Thomas Reid's Theory of Action by Gideon Yaffe on page 147, and Back Matter
- A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good by Robert Merrihew Adams in Back Matter
- Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology by Andre Ariew on page 155
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