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Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds : Comparative Philosophical Perspectives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262255271
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Functions in Biological and Artificial WorldsDDC classification:
  • 570.1
LOC classification:
  • QH331.F897 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Introduction -- 1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions -- II Bridging Functions of Organisms and Artifacts -- 2 Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology -- 3 Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective -- 4 How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine -- 5 On Unification -- III Functions and Normativity -- 6 Functions and Norms -- 7 The Inherent Normativity of Functions in Biology and Technology -- 8 Conceptual Conservatism -- 9 Ecological Restoration -- IV Functions and Classification -- 10 Being For -- 11 Realism and Artifact Kinds -- 12 A Device-Oriented Definition of Functions of Artifacts and Its Perspectives -- V Evolutionary Perspectives -- 13 The Open Border -- 14 Innovation and Population -- 15 The Cost of Modularity -- 16 Technical Artifacts, Engineering Practice, and Emergence -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Introduction -- 1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions -- II Bridging Functions of Organisms and Artifacts -- 2 Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology -- 3 Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective -- 4 How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine -- 5 On Unification -- III Functions and Normativity -- 6 Functions and Norms -- 7 The Inherent Normativity of Functions in Biology and Technology -- 8 Conceptual Conservatism -- 9 Ecological Restoration -- IV Functions and Classification -- 10 Being For -- 11 Realism and Artifact Kinds -- 12 A Device-Oriented Definition of Functions of Artifacts and Its Perspectives -- V Evolutionary Perspectives -- 13 The Open Border -- 14 Innovation and Population -- 15 The Cost of Modularity -- 16 Technical Artifacts, Engineering Practice, and Emergence -- Contributors -- Index.

Investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.

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