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Functions: selection and mechanisms

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 363)

Editors: Huneman, Philippe

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5304-4

ISBN: 978-94-007-5303-7

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Dec 28, 2013

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Huneman, Philippe

Pages: 1 –16

[This introduction presents general issues about functions and functional explanations, and the frameworks within which they had been handled by philosophers since four decades. It sketches the current state of the art, indicates areas in biology, cognitive science, philosophy of science and...
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Evolution and the Stability of Functional Architectures

Wimsatt, William C.

Pages: 19 –41

[A puzzle about functional organization has gone largely unnoticed in our debates about the nature of function. Although we recognize that systems evolve and acquire new functions, noone has systematically discussed whether there are constraints on how this is likely to occur. This naturally...
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Mechanism, Emergence, and Miscibility: The Autonomy of Evo-Devo

Walsh, Denis M.

Pages: 43 –65

[Evolutionary developmental biology shows us that the capacities of organisms play an indispensable role in the explanation of adaptive evolution. In particular, the goal-directed properties of organisms figure in a class of emergent teleological explanations. The role of emergent teleology has...
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Does Oxygen Have a Function, or Where Should the Regress of Functional Ascriptions Stop in Biology?

Gayon, Jean

Pages: 67 –79

[Biologists apply the notion of function to almost every type of structure and process that enters into descriptions of biological phenomena. They can also generate alarmingly long regresses: x can be the function of y, which is the function of z … and so on. But the functional regress must stop...
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How Ecosystem Evolution Strengthens the Case for Functional Pluralism

Bouchard, Frédéric

Pages: 83 –95

[Evolutionary explanations appear to necessitate etiological theories of function. As Amundson and Lauder have shown (Amundson R, Lauder GV. Function without purpose: the uses of causal role function in evolutionary biology. Biol Philos 9:443–70, 1994, reprinted in Allen et al. Nature’s purposes...
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A General Case for Functional Pluralism

Brandon, Robert N.

Pages: 97 –104

[Using examples from functional morphology and evolution, Amundson and Lauder (Biol Philos 9: 443–469, 1994) argued for functional pluralism in biology. More specifically, they argued that both causal role (CR) analyses of function and selected effects (SE) analyses played necessary parts in...
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Weak Realism in the Etiological Theory of Functions

Huneman, Philippe

Pages: 105 –130

[The etiological theory of functions advocates a realist view of functions, through a construal of functional ascriptions as statements about evolutionary history. Basing functions on fitness and natural selection, it faces difficulties when it comes to discriminating between distinct...
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Functions and Mechanisms: A Perspectivalist View

Craver, Carl F.

Pages: 133 –158

[Though the mechanical philosophy is traditionally associated with the rejection of teleological description and explanation, the theories of the contemporary physiological sciences, such as neuroscience, are replete with both functional and mechanistic descriptions. I explore the relationship...
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Understanding the Sciences Through the Fog of “Functionalism(s)”

Gillett, Carl

Pages: 159 –181

[Versions of “functionalism,” and their frameworks, have come to dominate many philosophical debates. Unfortunately, there is now a damaging interpretive “fog” where “functionalism(s)” is applied because it widely assumed that what I term the Standard Picture is true of the metaphysics of...
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Artifacts and Organisms: A Case for a New Etiological Theory of Functions

Longy, Françoise

Pages: 185 –211

[Most philosophers adopt an etiological conception of functions, but not one that uniformly explains the functions attributed to material entities irrespective of whether they are natural or man-made. Here, I investigate the widespread idea that a combination of the two current etiological...

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