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001 2008031061
003 DLC
005 20080729144915.0
008 080714s2009 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008031061
020 $a9780262113212 (hard cover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aQH331$b.F897 2009
082 00 $a570.1$222
245 00 $aFunctions in biological and artificial worlds :$bcomparative philosophical perspectives /$cedited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bMIT Press,$c2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $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 : do's and don't's 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.
650 0 $aTechnology$xPhilosophy.
700 1 $aKrohs, Ulrich.
700 1 $aKroes, Peter,$d1950-