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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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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