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082 _221
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245 0 0 _aFunctions in biological and artificial worlds :
_bcomparative philosophical perspectives /
_cedited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bMIT Press,
_cc2009.
300 _ax, 302 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aVienna series in theoretical biology.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 _aBiology
_xPhilosophy.
_99846
650 0 _aTechnology
_xPhilosophy.
_910711
700 1 _aKrohs, Ulrich.
_910712
700 1 _aKroes, Peter,
_d1950-
_910713
830 0 _aVienna series in theoretical biology.
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_cBOOK
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