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30 Mark Perlman D6 S knows that h iff (i) h is true, (ii) S is justifi ed in believing that h (that is, there is a true body of ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 31 explaining certain puzzling problems, and they need not be seen as competing mu ...
32 Mark Perlman acknowledging the validity and usefulness of Cummins-style systematic functions, and argued for a kind of plural ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 33 and disposition will tell us more and explain more. Let’s give ourselves an ars ...
34 Mark Perlman In a different fi eld, that of mental content, I see the same kind of problem. Fodor’s (1987) notion of “asym- ...
Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology 35 Fodor, J. (1987). Psychosemantics. Cambridge, Mass.: Bradford/The MIT Press. Fo ...
36 Mark Perlman Perlman, M. (2002). Pagan teleology: Adaptational role and the philosophy of mind. In: Functions: New Essays in ...
3 Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 3.1 Proper Function It is widely acknowledged that both bi ...
38 Beth Preston the survival and reproductive success of its possessors that it has persisted and proliferated while the variant ...
Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 39 in the past and relying on continuing usefulness to pick ...
40 Beth Preston in material and design for centuries or millennia. Lack of variation in components also occurs in material cultu ...
Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 41 they still have winnowing as a proper function, even thou ...
42 Beth Preston rare exception rather than the rule in material culture, as in biology. And as Cummins (2002: 166) remarks, if n ...
Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 43 personal, portable clock we now know as a watch could be ...
44 Beth Preston producing E, and thereby causally contributed to the reproduction of Ts in O’s lineage. (Buller 1998: 507) Like ...
Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 45 applicable for all biological organisms, either, so we ca ...
46 Beth Preston 3.4 Use and Reproduction Perhaps because of such disanalogies, Paul Griffi ths (1993: 419–420) says that fi tnes ...
Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 47 bution of proper function therefore seems perfectly strai ...
48 Beth Preston motivations for using artifacts in regular ways that are not contingent on their believing these artifacts to be ...
Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective 49 causal-role, accidental, Cummins, or (my preference) syst ...
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