Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: September 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780262621991
Subjects: Life sciences: general issues; Philosophy of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Evolution; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
First sentence: Biology is unique among the natural sciences in its use of a family of concepts that might seem better suited to the description and explanation of artifacts than the description and explanation of organisms.