What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter

What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter

Garson, Justin

Cambridge University Press

03/2021

247

Mole

Inglês

9781108460026

15 a 20 dias

337

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Introduction; Part I. Background: 1. The strangeness of functions; 2. Function and selection; 3. Feedback and functions; Part II. Theory: 4. An explosion of selection processes; 5. Selection and construction; 6. A generalized selected effects theory of function; 7. Proper functions are proximal functions; 8. When functions do wrong; Part III. Applications: 9. Function pluralism; 10. What are mechanisms?; 11. What are mental disorders?; 12. A new kind of teleosemantics; A programmatic epilogue.
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