Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives /
by Krohs, Ulrich; Kroes, Peter.
Material type: BookSeries: Vienna series in theoretical biology.Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009Description: x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262113212 (hard cover); 026211321X (hard cover).Subject(s): Biology -- Philosophy | Technology -- PhilosophyOnline resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Dhaka University Science Library General Stacks | Non Fiction | 570.1 FUN (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 476029 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes -- Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts -- Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and don'ts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman -- Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston -- How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy -- On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas -- Functions and normativity -- Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin -- The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen -- Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies -- Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light -- Functions and classification -- Being for : a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano -- Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi -- A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi -- Evolutionary perspectives -- The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes -- Innovation and population / Tim Lewens -- The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs -- Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.
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