Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780262122610
Subjects: Life sciences: general issues; Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Science; Life Sciences - Evolution; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Life Sciences - General; Biology
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.