Contents
Series Foreword vii
Preface ixI INTRODUCTION 1
1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and
Artifactual Functions 3
Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes
II BRIDGING FUNCTIONS OF ORGANISMS AND
ARTIFACTS 13
2 Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology:
DOs and DON’Ts for Thinking About Function 17
Mark Perlman
3 Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in
Comparative Perspective 37
Beth Preston
4 How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions
Combine 51
Françoise Longy
5 On Unifi cation: Taking Technical Functions
as Objective (and Biological Functions as
Subjective) 69
Pieter E. Vermaas
III FUNCTIONS AND NORMATIVITY 89
6 Functions and Norms 93
Peter McLaughlin