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What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521038850
  • ISBN: 0521038855
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

McLaughlin, Peter

SUMMARY

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. It provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions.McLaughlin, Peter is the author of 'What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521038850 and ISBN 0521038855.

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