What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems by Peter McLaughlin
What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems
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Peter McLaughlin
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What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

Peter McLaughlin

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This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It tackles such questions as: Why are som...

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