What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) Book

This book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.Read More

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  • Book Description

    This 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?

  • 0521782333
  • 9780521782333
  • Peter McLaughlin
  • 18 December 2000
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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