Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives

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MIT Press (2009)
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This volume takes on both issues and examines the relationship between organisms and artifacts from the perspective of functionality.

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QH331.F897 2009

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Conceptual conservatism : The case of normative functions.Paul Sheldon Davies
The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology.Maarten Franssen
The open border : Two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts.Wybo Houkes
A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives.Yoshinobu Kitamura & Riichiro Mizoguchi
Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions.Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes
Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence.Peter Kroes
The cost of modularity.Ulrich Krohs
Innovation and population.Tim Lewens
Ecological restoration : From functional descriptions to normative prescriptions.Andrew Light
How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine.Françoise Longy
Functions and norms.Peter McLaughlin
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
Being for a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge.Giacomo Romano
Realism and artifact kinds.Marzia Soavi
On unification : Taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective).Pieter E. Vermaas

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Conceptual conservatism : The case of normative functions.Paul Sheldon Davies - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology.Maarten Franssen - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
The cost of modularity.Ulrich Krohs - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence.Peter Kroes - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives.Yoshinobu Kitamura & Riichiro Mizoguchi - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
On unification : Taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective).Pieter E. Vermaas - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
Functions and norms.Peter McLaughlin - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
The open border : Two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts.Wybo Houkes - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine.Françoise Longy - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions.Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes (eds.), Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.

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