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10 Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes amphibians can and do. In technical cases maintenance and repair are brought about by external a ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions 11 representative for modern engineered technical artifacts. ...
12 Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes Krohs, U. (2008a). Co-designing social systems by designing technical artifacts: A conceptual ap ...
II BRIDGING FUNCTIONS OF ORGANISMS AND ARTIFACTS One of the primary topics in a comparative perspective on biological and techni ...
function—that is, a function that “sticks” to its bearer like a proper name to a person—in both considered domains. Proper funct ...
duces suffi cient conditions to transpose function-ascription theories into theories about functions-as-properties. He then show ...
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2 Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology: DOs and DON’Ts for Thinking About Function Teleology has a long history. Religi ...
18 Mark Perlman paper “Functional Analysis” broke new ground in giving a naturalistic and ahistorical analysis of functions base ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 19 to identifying and using functions, and focusing on explanation, we can move to ...
20 Mark Perlman basis of assigning function. Although it is tempting to say that the function of an artifact comes from what its ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 21 enough. The udders were designed by nature to deliver milk, but their size and ...
22 Mark Perlman greyhounds for running fast, and pugs seemingly for looking silly and cute and breathing loudly. (I am still won ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 23 acteristics that diminish their abilities to hunt. Pugs and bulldogs, with thei ...
24 Mark Perlman example, it is not well known that the shape of Niagara Falls (on the U.S.–Canada border) is not what the water ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 25 tinct kinds? These “natural” objects have been modifi ed by human activity long ...
26 Mark Perlman attention to context. This can lead to an over-reliance on function, when considering the context would do most ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 27 Many others have weighed in on the broad or narrow scope of the content of the ...
28 Mark Perlman function on the conscious intentions of a Divine Creator, and Searle, who sees functions as merely intentional h ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 29 social, economic, physiological, physical, and perhaps also genetic factors tha ...
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