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Nature's purposes analyses of function and design in biology

Colin Allen; Marc Bekoff; George V Lauder

Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press 1998

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QH331 N285 ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Nature's purposes analyses of function and design in biology
  • Autor: Colin Allen; Marc Bekoff; George V Lauder
  • Assuntos: Biology -- Philosophy; Teleology; BIOLOGIA (FILOSOFIA); TEOLOGIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: Teleological explanations in evolutionary biology / Francisco J. Ayala -- Functions / Larry Wright -- Biological teleology: questions and explanations / Robert N. Brandon -- The inference of function from structure in fossils / M.J.S. Rudwick -- Adaptation and the form-function complex / Walter J. Bock and Gerd von Wahlert -- Functional analysis / Robert Cummins -- Teleology revisited / Ernest Nagel -- Functions / John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter -- Where's the good in teleology? / Mark Bedau -- In defense of proper functions / Ruth Garrett Millikan -- Functions as selected effects: the conceptual analyst's defense / Karen Neander -- Function without purpose: the uses of causal role function in evolutionary biology / Ron Amundson and George V. Lauder -- Functions and goal directedness / Berent Enç and Fred Adams -- Function, fitness, and disposition / Sandra D. Mitchell -- The concept of functi on / R.A. Hinde -- Functional analysis and proper functions / Paul E. Griffiths -- A modern history theory of functions / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Function and design / Philip Kitcher -- Historical biology and the problem of desi gn / George V. Lauder -- Exaptation- a missing term in the science of form / Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth S. Vrba -- Adaptation and the form-function relation / Carl Gans -- Biological function, adaptation, and natural desig n / Colin Allen and Marc Bekoff
  • Editor: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1998
  • Formato: vi, 597 p. ill. 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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