An edition of Functions in biological and artificial worlds
(2009)
Functions in biological and artificial worlds
comparative philosophical perspectives
by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes
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Functions in biological and artificial worlds: comparative philosophical perspectives
2009, MIT Press
in English
026211321X 9780262113212
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Table of Contents
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 : 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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