Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives

Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives / edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes.

This text features investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krohs, Ulrich, Kroes, Peter, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Series:Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Subjects:
Biology > Philosophy.
Technology > Philosophy.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biology > Philosophy
Technology > Philosophy
Funktion
Normativität
Emergenz
Technikphilosophie
Biologie
Philosophie
Biophilosophie
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes
  • Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts
  • Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and don'ts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman
  • Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston
  • How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy
  • On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas
  • Functions and normativity
  • Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin
  • The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen
  • Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies
  • Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light
  • Functions and classification
  • Being for : a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano
  • Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi
  • A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi
  • Evolutionary perspectives
  • The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes
  • Innovation and population / Tim Lewens
  • The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs
  • Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.

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