What Functions Explain
Subtitle: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 18, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521782333
Subjects: Life sciences: general issues; Philosophy of science; Social sciences; Philosophy; Science; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Biology--Philosophy; Philosophy / General; General; Biology
First sentence: We give and take functional explanations-not any old functional explanation and not of anything and everything.