Research Catalog

Title

Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives / edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Krohs, Ulrich.
• Kroes, Peter, 1950-

Description

x, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Uniform Title

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Subject

• Biology > Philosophy
• Technology > Philosophy
• Funktion
• Normativität
• Emergenz
• Technikphilosophie
• Biologie
• Philosophie
• Biophilosophie
• Biologi > teori, filosofi
• Teknik > teori, filosofi
• Funktion
• Emergenz
• Technikphilosophie
• Biologie
• Philosophie
• Biophilosophie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes -- Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts -- Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and don'ts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman -- Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston -- How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy -- On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas -- Functions and normativity -- Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin -- The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen -- Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies -- Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light -- Functions and classification -- Being for : a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano -- Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi -- A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi -- Evolutionary perspectives -- The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes -- Innovation and population / Tim Lewens -- The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs -- Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.

ISBN

• 9780262113212
• 026211321X

LCCN

2008031061

OCLC

• ocn237047985
• 237047985
• SCSB-9626859

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library