Functions New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology

In explaining aspects of the natural world, including the aspects of mind, scientists have frequently used the concept of function. But what are functions? Here, 15 leading scholars of philosophy of psychology and philosophy of biology present new essays on functions.

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1 - Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments in Cosmology and Biology
2 - Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking
3 - A Rebuttal on Functions
4 - Biofunctions: Two Paradigms
5 - On the Normativity of Functions
6 - Neo-Teleology
7 - Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference
8 - Function and Design Revisited
9 - The Continuing Usefulness Account of Proper Function
10 - Pagan Teleology: Adaptational Role and the Philosophy of Mind
11 - Indeterminacy of Function Attributions
12 - Brentano's Chestnuts
13 - Human Rationality and the Unique Origin Constraint
14 - Real Traits, Real Functions?
15 - Types of Traits: Function, structure, and homology in the classification of traits

Robert Cummins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis Mark Perlman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Western Oregon University Andre Ariew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island