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What Functions Explain

Name: What Functions Explain
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02043071
Price: 48216 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780521782333

Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

Peter McLaughlin

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02043071

Publishers Cambridge University Press, December 2000

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This 2001 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. It tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are not? What do the functional explanations tell us about how these objects are conceptualized? What do we commit ourselves to when we give and take functional explanations in the life sciences and the social sciences? McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the post-war literature on functional explanation. What Functions Explain provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.