What Functions Explain

Name: What Functions Explain
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521782333
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Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

Autor: Peter McLaughlin

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Cambridge University Press

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This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the soci...

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Autor

Peter McLaughlin

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2000

Stránok

272

EAN

9780521782333

ISBN

0521782333

Enbook ID

02043071

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

500

Rozmery

152 x 229 x 16

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This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are not? What do the functional explanations tell us about how these objects are conceptualized? What do we commit ourselves to when we give and take functional explanations in the life sciences and the social sciences? McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the post-war literature on functional explanation. What Functions Explain provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.

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