Functions in biological and artificial worlds
Subtitle: comparative philosophical perspectives
By: edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes.
Contributors: Krohs, Ulrich.; Kroes, Peter, 1950-
Series: Vienna series in theoretical biology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780262113212
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy; Technology -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes; title: Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts; title: Changing the mission of theories of teleology : do's and don't's for thinking about function / Mark Perlman; title: Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston; title: How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy; title: On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas; title: Functions and normativity; title: Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin; title: The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen; title: Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies; title: Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light; title: Functions and classification; title: Being for a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano; title: Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi; title: A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi; title: Evolutionary perspectives; title: The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes; title: Innovation and population / Tim Lewens; title: The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs; title: Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.