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Function, Explanation, and Other Biological Concerns
Australasian Philosophical Review 6 (4):327-334 (2022)
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In the target article for this issue, Christie, Brusse, et al. [2022a] argue that Selected Effects Functions (SEF), at least as currently articulated, often do not explain biological traits. In res...Author Profiles
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A Mark of the Mental: A Defence of Informational Teleosemantics.Karen Neander - 2017 - Cambridge, USA: MIT Press.
What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter.Justin Garson - 2019 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
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