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Functions
New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology

Edited by Andre Ariew, Robert Cummins, and Mark Perlman

Price: £24.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925581-8
Publication date: 11 July 2002
464 pages, 12 line illus., 234x156 mm
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Reviews
  • '...provide[s] excellent introductions to the major problems and positions in the field.' - Jonathan M. Kaplan, Philosophical Psychology
  • '... the book contains many interesting arguments, ideas and insights that could be employed and should be discussed by biologists, psychologists and philsophers interested in the philosophical problems of real science.' - Acta Biotheoretica
  • 'a richly varied collection of essays which ... provides the reader with the opportunity for a sustained examination of the central issues concerning functions and their role in biology and psychology.' - Graham Macdonald, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Description
  • a hot topic
  • eminent contributors
  • brings together philosophy, biology, and psychology
  • all essays specially written for this volume
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Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy of biology, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

Contents
Introduction , Andre Ariew and Mark Perlman
History of Teleology and functional explanation: from Socrates to Darwin and Beyond
1. Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments in Cosmology and Biology , Andre Ariew
2. Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking , Michael Ruse
Analysis: Functional Explanations Today
3. A Rebuttal on Functions , Christopher Boors
4. Biofunctions: Two Paradigms , Ruth Millikan
5. On the Normativity of Functions , Valerie Gray Hardcastle
6. Neo-Teleology , Robert Cummins
7. Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference , William Wimsatt
8. Function and Design Revisited , David J. Buller
9. The Continuing Usefulness Account of Proper Function , Peter H. Schwartz
Teleosemantics
10. Pagan Teleology: Adaptational Role and the Philosophy of Mind , Mark Perlman
11. Indeterminacy of Function Attributions , Berent Enc
12. Brentano's Chestnuts , D. M. Walsh
Related Issues
13. Human Rationality and the Unique Origin Constraint , Mohan Matthen
14. Real Traits, Real Functions? , Colin Allen
15. Types of Traits: Function, structure, and homology in the classification of traits , Karen Neander
Biographies, Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Andre Ariew, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island,
Robert Cummins, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, and
Mark Perlman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Western Oregon University


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More in the same subject area:
Philosophy of mind
Cognition & cognitive psychology
Philosophy of science

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