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Teleology / Andrew Woodfield.
- Title
- Teleology / Andrew Woodfield.
- Author
- Woodfield, Andrew.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | SOC.SCI. W 855 t | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 232 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The notions of purpose, goal, end and function are used (and abused) in descriptions of a very wide range of human, animal and machine behaviour. Andrew Woodfield provides here a unified account of such teleological descriptions and explanations, their varieties, their logical structure and their proper uses. He concentrates his argument on the concepts of 'goal-directed behaviour' and 'natural function', and combines original philosophical criticism with a meticulous, detailed survey of the main competing theories in this diffuse and difficult field.
- Subject
- Teleology
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis, St. John's College, Oxford.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [224]-227.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0521211026 :
- LCCN
- ^^^75044574^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library