02563cam a2200313 a 4500 237047985 OSt 20150408114013.0 080714s2009 maua b 001 0 eng 2008031061 9780262113212 (hard cover) 026211321x (hard cover) (OCoLC)237047985 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UKM C#P BWX CDX IXA QH331 .F897 2009 21 570.1 Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives / edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009. x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Vienna series in theoretical biology. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Biology Philosophy. 9846 Technology Philosophy. 10711 Krohs, Ulrich. 10712 Kroes, Peter, 1950- 10713 Vienna series in theoretical biology. 10364 ddc BOOK 21460 255960 0 2013-03-10 0 0 570.1 F U B 2012-04-12 EMF 00076371 EMF 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 570.1 F U B 2012-04-12 EMF 00076370 EMF 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0