What Functions Explain : Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems.

This 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 funct...

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Main Author: McLaughlin, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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