What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems - Rilegato

Libro 5 di 23: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

McLaughlin, Peter

 
9780521782333: What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

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This 2001 book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.

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'McLaughlin has given us an original and daring account of functional explanation ... [his] fascinating account of organisms as self-maintaining systems is important ...' Acta Biotheoretica

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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 provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.

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9780521038850: What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

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ISBN 10:  0521038855 ISBN 13:  9780521038850
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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