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Author:   Andre Ariew (, University of Rhode Island) ,  Robert Cummins (, University of California, Davis) ,  Mark Perlman (, Western Oregon University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780199255818

ISBN 10:   0199255814
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   11 July 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Andre Ariew and Mark Perlman: Introduction History of Teleology and functional explanation: from Socrates to Darwin and Beyond1: Andre Ariew: Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments in Cosmology and Biology 2: Michael Ruse: Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking Analysis: Functional Explanations Today3: Christopher Boorse: A Rebuttal on Functions 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 Teleosemantics10: Mark Perlman: Pagan Teleology: Adaptational Role and the Philosophy of Mind 11: Berent Enc: Indeterminacy of Function Attributions 12: D. M. Walsh: Brentano's Chestnuts Related Issues13: Mohan Matthen: Human Rationality and the Unique Origin Constraint 14: Colin Allen: Real Traits, Real Functions? 15: Karen Neander: Types of Traits: Function, structure, and homology in the classification of traits Biographies, Index

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`a richly varied collection of essays which ... provides the reader with the opportunity for a sustained examination of the central issues concerning functions and their role in biology and psychology' Graham Macdonald, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

...provide[s] excellent introductions to the major problems and positions in the field. Jonathan M. Kaplan, Philosophical Psychology ... the book contains many interesting arguments, ideas and insights that could be employed and should be discussed by biologists, psychologists and philsophers interested in the philosophical problems of real science. Acta Biotheoretica a richly varied collection of essays which ... provides the reader with the opportunity for a sustained examination of the central issues concerning functions and their role in biology and psychology. Graham Macdonald, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

...provide[s] excellent introductions to the major problems and positions in the field. Jonathan M. Kaplan, Philosophical Psychology ... the book contains many interesting arguments, ideas and insights that could be employed and should be discussed by biologists, psychologists and philsophers interested in the philosophical problems of real science. Acta Biotheoretica a richly varied collection of essays which ... provides the reader with the opportunity for a sustained examination of the central issues concerning functions and their role in biology and psychology. Graham Macdonald, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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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

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