Functions New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology

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Introduction
History of Teleology and functional explanation: from Socrates to
Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments in Cosmology and Biology
Evolutionary Biology and Teleological ThinkingAnalysis: Functional Explanations Today
A Rebuttal on Functions
Biofunctions: Two Paradigms
Hardcastle: On the Normativity of Functions
Neo-Teleology
Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference
Function and Design Revisited
The Continuing Usefulness Account of Proper FunctionTeleosemantics
Pagan Teleology: Adaptational Role and the Philosophy of Mind
Indeterminacy of Function Attributions
Brentano's ChestnutsRelated Issues
Human Rationality and the Unique Origin Constraint
Real Traits, Real Functions?
Types of Traits: Function, structure, and homology in the classification of traits
Biographies
Index
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