What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems Book

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What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems, This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate , What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

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What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems
Written by author Peter McLaughlin
Published by Cambridge University Press, December 2000
This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate
This book provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.

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Acknowledgments
Pt. I Functions and Intentions 1
1 Introduction 3
2 The problem of Teleology 16
3 Intentions and the Functions of Artifacts 42
Pt. II The Analysis of Functional Explanation 63
4 Basic Positions in Philosophy of Science: Hempel and Nagel 65
5 The Etiological View 82
6 The Dispositional View 118
Pt. III Self-Reproducing Systems 139
7 Artifacts and Organisms 142
8 Feedback Mechanisms and Their Beneficiaries 162
9 Having a Good 191
10 What Functions Explain 205
Notes 215
Bibliography 237
Index 255

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	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Functions and Intentions	1
1	Introduction	3
2	The problem of Teleology	16
3	Intentions and the Functions of Artifacts	42
Pt. II	The Analysis of Functional Explanation	63
4	Basic Positions in Philosophy of Science: Hempel and Nagel	65
5	The Etiological View	82
6	The Dispositional View	118
Pt. III	Self-Reproducing Systems	139
7	Artifacts and Organisms	142
8	Feedback Mechanisms and Their Beneficiaries	162
9	Having a Good	191
10	What Functions Explain	205
	Notes	215
	Bibliography	237
	Index	255