What Functions Explain : Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems
McLaughlin, Peter
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This 2001 book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.
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
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