What Functions Explain
Subtitle: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780521038850
Subjects: Life sciences: general issues; Philosophy of science; General; Biology--Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Science : General; Philosophy
First sentence: We give and take functional explanations-not any old functional explanation and not of anything and everything.