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What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
What Functions Explain Functional Explanation and SelfReproducing Systems - Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
Author: Peter McLaughlin
This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. McLaughlin gives a critical review of the debate on functional explanation in the philosophy of science that has occurred over the past fifty...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521038850
ISBN-10: 0521038855
Publication Date: 8/20/2007
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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