What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) - Hardcover

Book 5 of 23: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

McLaughlin, Peter

 
9780521782333: What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521782333 ISBN 13: 9780521782333
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This 2001 book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.

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Review

'McLaughlin has given us an original and daring account of functional explanation ... [his] fascinating account of organisms as self-maintaining systems is important ...' Acta Biotheoretica

Book Description

This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521782333
ISBN 13 
9780521782333
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272

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