Functions: selection and mechanisms

This  volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’s papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ‘etiological theory of functio...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Huneman, Philippe. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 363
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5304-4