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Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds Comparative Philosophical Perspectives edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes Func ...
Functions in Biological and Artifi cial Worlds ...
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology Gerd B. Müller, Günter P. Wager, and Werner Callebaut, editors The Evolution of Cognition, ...
Functions in Biological and Artifi cial Worlds Comparative Philosophical Perspectives edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes The ...
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Contents Series Foreword vii Preface ix I INTRODUCTION 1 1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions 3 ...
7 The Inherent Normativity of Functions in Biology and Technology 103 Maarten Franssen 8 Conceptual Conservatism: The Case of No ...
Series Foreword Biology is becoming the leading science in this century. As in all other sciences, progress in biology depends o ...
to aspects of theoretical biology, with an emphasis on integrating the developmental, evolutionary, and cognitive sciences. The ...
Preface The notion of function is an integral part of the way of thinking in biology as well as in technology. Traits and organs ...
The 15th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology, “Comparative Philosophy of Technical Artifacts and Biological Organisms,” he ...
I INTRODUCTION ...
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1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions The nature of functionality is one of the big and diffi cul ...
4 Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes It turns out, however, that also with respect to technical functions, things are not that easy. E ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions 5 social institutions, such as insect states and possibly als ...
6 Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes entities are “working.” Aristotle often used the alternative term entelecheia, which trans- lates ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions 7 alive and it is, according to many biologists, an indispens ...
8 Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes means-ends relations and the ends involved may be simply interpreted as the ends of human beings. ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions 9 1.3 A Brief Survey of the Parallels Between the Fields Desp ...
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