Functions in biological and artificial worlds: comparative philosophical perspectives / ed. by Krohs U., Kroes P. - (Vienna series in theoretical biology). - Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. - x, 302 p.: ill. - ISBN 978-0-262-11321-2  Место хранения:   035 | Объединенный институт истории, филологии и философии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Series Foreword ............................................... vii Preface ........................................................ ix I INTRODUCTION ................................................ 1 1 Philosophical Perspectives on Organismic and Artifactual Functions .................................................... 3 Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes II BRIDGING FUNCTIONS OF ORGANISMS AND ARTIFACTS .............. 13 2 Changing the Mission of Theories of Teleology: DOs and DON'Ts for Thinking About Function .......................... 17 Mark Perlman 3 Biological and Cultural Proper Functions in Comparative Perspective ................................................. 37 Beth Preston 4 How Biological, Cultural, and Intended Functions Combine .... 51 Françoise Longy 5 On Unification: Taking Technical Functions as Objective (and Biological Functions as Subjective) .................... 69 Pieter E. Vermaas III FUNÇTIONS AND NORMATIVITY .................................. 89 6 Functions and Norms ......................................... 93 Peter McLaughlin 7 The Inherent Normativity of Functions in Biology and Technology ................................................. 103 Maarten Franssen 8 Conceptual Conservatism: The Case of Normative Functions ... 127 Paul Sheldon Davies 9 Ecological Restoration: From Functional Descriptions to Normative Prescriptions .................................... 147 Andrew Light IV FUNCTIONS AND CLASSIFICATION .............................. 163 10 Being For: A Philosophical Hypothesis About the Structure of Functional Knowledge .................................... 167 Giacomo Romano 11 Realism and Artifact Kinds ................................. 185 Marzia Soavi 12 A Device-Oriented Definition of Functions of Artifacts and Its Perspectives ....................................... 203 Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi V EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ................................. 223 13 The Open Border: Two Cases of Concept Transfer from Organisms to Artifacts ..................................... 227 Wybo Houkes 14 Innovation and Population .................................. 243 Tim Lewens 15 The Cost of Modularity ..................................... 259 Ulrich Krohs 16 Technical Artifacts, Engineering Practice, and Emergence ... 277 Peter Kroes Contributors .................................................. 293 Index ......................................................... 295