What Functions Explain

Auteur: McLaughlin, Peter (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
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 provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.
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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 provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.
ISBN / EAN 9780521038850
Auteur McLaughlin, Peter (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)
Editeur Cambridge University Press