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`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' Graham Macdonald, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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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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`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' Graham Macdonald, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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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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teleosemantics programme, weak etiological theory, trait clade, unperformed functions, adapted proper function, abstractness condition, homologous groupings, cosmological teleology, argument from pattern, strong etiological theory, final aitia, homologous categories, eyelid material, truth maximization, medical normality, relational proper functions, token trait, artifactual examples, unselected functions, synchronic properties, diachronic properties, conceptual role theories, derived proper functions, modern history view, etiological account Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Philosophical Review, University of Chicago Press, Functional Minimalists, Continuing Usefulness, Other Biological Categories, Karen Neander, Columbia University Press, Functional Minimalism, Low Church, Midwest Studies, Academic Press, Non-Selective Maintenance, Ruth Garrett, The Uses of Causal Role Function, Unique Origin Constraint, Mohan Matthen, Philosophical Essays, Philosophical Studies, Robert Cummins New!
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teleosemantics programme, weak etiological theory, trait clade, unperformed functions, adapted proper function, abstractness condition, homologous groupings, cosmological teleology, argument from pattern, strong etiological theory, final aitia, homologous categories, eyelid material, truth maximization, medical normality, relational proper functions, token trait, artifactual examples, unselected functions, synchronic properties, diachronic properties, conceptual role theories, derived proper functions, modern history view, etiological account Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Philosophical Review, University of Chicago Press, Functional Minimalists, Continuing Usefulness, Other Biological Categories, Karen Neander, Columbia University Press, Functional Minimalism, Low Church, Midwest Studies, Academic Press, Non-Selective Maintenance, Ruth Garrett, The Uses of Causal Role Function, Unique Origin Constraint, Mohan Matthen, Philosophical Essays, Philosophical Studies, Robert Cummins New!
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- Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism by Ruth Garrett Millikan on 10 pages
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