Ariew, André (Editor)
Cummins, Robert (Editor)
Perlman, Mark (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Physical Details: viii + 449 pp., illus.
Language: English
Description Contents: André Ariew, “Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments”; Michael Ruse, “Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking”; Christopher Boorse, “A Rebuttal on Functions”; Ruth Garrett Millikan, “Biofunctions: Two Paradigms”; Valerie Gray Hardcastle, “On the Normativity of Functions”; Robert Cummins, “Neo-teleology”; William Wimsatt, “Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference”; David J. Buller, “Function and Design Revisited”; Peter H. Schwartz, “The Continuing Usefulness Account of Proper Function”; Mark Perlman, “Pagan Teleology: Adaptational Role and the Philosophy of Mind”; Berent Enç, “Indeterminacy of Function Attributions”; D. M. Walsh, “Brentano's Chestnuts”; Mohan Matthen, “Human Rationality and the Unique Origin Constraint”; Colin Allen, “Real Traits, Real Functions?”; Karen Neander, “Types of Traits: The Importance of Functional Homologues.”
Essay Review Schlosser, Gerhard (2003) Naturalizing Functions: Unity beyond Pluralism?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 685-697).
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