機能的説明と自己生殖システム<br>What Functions Explain : Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

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機能的説明と自己生殖システム
What Functions Explain : Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521782333
  • DDC分類 570.1

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. Tackles such questions as: Why are some things explained functionally while others are not? What do the functional explanations tell us about how these objects are conceptualized?

Full Description

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 tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others are not? What do the functional explanations tell us about how these objects are conceptualized? What do we commit ourselves to when we give and take functional explanations in the life sciences and the social sciences? McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science. He discusses the history of the philosophical question of teleology, and provides a comprehensive review of the post-war literature on functional explanation. What Functions Explain provides a sophisticated and detailed Aristotelian analysis of our concept of natural functions, and offers a positive contribution to the ongoing debate on the topic.

Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I. Functions and Intentions: 1. Introduction; 2. The problem of teleology; 3. Intentions and the functions of artifacts; Part II. The Analysis of Functional Explanation: 4. Basic positions in philosophy of science: Hempel and Nagel; 5. The etiological view; 6. The dispositional view; Part III. Self-Reproducing Systems: 7. Artifacts and organisms; 8. Feedback mechanisms and their beneficiaries; 9. Having a good; 10. What functions explain; Notes; Bibliography; Index.