Functions: selection and mechanisms

This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins<U+0019>s papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright<U+0019>s <...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Huneman, Philippe. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 363
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5304-4