02852cam a2200385 a 4500 15365712 BD-DhUL 20141116192843.0 080714s2009 maua b 001 0 eng 2008031061 GBA900834 bnb 014864330 Uk 9780262113212 (hard cover) 026211321X (hard cover) (OCoLC)ocn237047985 (OCoLC)237047985 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UKM C#P BWX CDX DLC BD-DhUL QH331 .F897 2009 570.1 22 FUN Functions in biological and artificial worlds : comparative philosophical perspectives / edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009. x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. US$ 45.00 Vienna series in theoretical biology 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. Biology Philosophy. Technology Philosophy. Krohs, Ulrich. Kroes, Peter, Table of contents only 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK sh21 2008-07-14 sh21 2008-07-14 (telework) aa07 2008-07-29 xe10 2009-03-04 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xf04 2009-06-15 copy 2 added 19251 19251 0 0 ddc 0 570_100000000000000_FUN 0 NFIC 36960 DUSL DUSL GEN 2012-11-13 Purchased 570.1 FUN 476029 2014-11-16 1 2014-11-16 BK