Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
Description:x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Vienna series in theoretical biology
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7551848
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Other authors / contributors:Krohs, Ulrich.
Kroes, Peter, 1950-
ISBN:9780262113212 (hard cover : alk. paper)
026211321X (hard cover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 |a 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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