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Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives
- 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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Book/Text | Use in library | QH331 .F897 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Vienna series in theoretical biology
- Uniform Title
- Vienna series in theoretical biology
- Subject
- 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