Wimsatt and the robustness family: Review of Wimsatt's Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings
Biology and Philosophy 26 (2):281-293 (2011)
| Abstract | This review of Wimsatt’s book Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings focuses on analysing his use of robustness, a central theme in the book. I outline a family of three distinct conceptions of robustness that appear in the book, and look at the different roles they play. I briefly examine what underwrites robustness, and suggest that further work is needed to clarify both the structure of robustness and the relation between it various conceptions | |||||||||
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