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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A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives.Yoshinobu Kitamura & Riichiro Mizoguchi
Being for a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge.Giacomo Romano
Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective.Beth Preston
Changing the mission of theories of teleology : Do's and don't's for thinking about function.Mark Perlman
Conceptual conservatism : The case of normative functions.Paul Sheldon Davies
Ecological restoration : From functional descriptions to normative prescriptions.Andrew Light
Functions and norms.Peter McLaughlin
How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine.Françoise Longy
Innovation and population.Tim Lewens
On unification : Taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective).Pieter E. Vermaas
Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions.Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes
Realism and artifact kinds.Marzia Soavi
Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence.Peter Kroes
The cost of modularity.Ulrich Krohs
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

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Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence.Peter Kroes - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes, Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
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On unification : Taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective).Pieter E. Vermaas - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes, Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
Functions and norms.Peter McLaughlin - 2009 - In Ulrich Krohs & Peter Kroes, 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, Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives. MIT Press.
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