Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts
2023 ed.
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3031312732
ISBN-13
9783031312731
Edition
2023 ed.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
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Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 2024
Print length
375 Pages
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Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological structure or process amounts to suggesting that it is explained by its effects.
This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological structure or process amounts to suggesting that it is explained by its effects. This book confronts the debates on function with the use of the notion in a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, psychology, and medicine. It also raises the question of whether this notion, which is as old in the history of technology as it is in the life sciences, has the same meaning in these two domains.
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