Functions

New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925581-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ariew, Andre

Cummins, Robert

Perlman, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- History of Teleology and functional explanation: from Socrates to Darwin and Beyond

- 2: Michael Ruse: Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking

- Analysis: Functional Explanations Today

- 4: Ruth Millikan: Biofunctions: Two Paradigms

- 5: Valerie Gray Hardcastle: On the Normativity of Functions

- 6: Robert Cummins: Neo-Teleology

- 7: William Wimsatt: Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference

- 8: David J. Buller: Function and Design Revisited

- 9: Peter H. Schwartz: The Continuing Usefulness Account of Proper Function

- Teleosemantics

- 11: Berent Enc: Indeterminacy of Function Attributions

- 12: D. M. Walsh: Brentano's Chestnuts

- Related Issues

- 14: Colin Allen: Real Traits, Real Functions?

- 15: Karen Neander: Types of Traits: Function, structure, and homology in the classification of traits

- Biographies, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis

Mark Perlman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Western Oregon University

Andre Ariew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island