A Pragmatist Account of Functions in Synthetic Biology.
In fields where science and technology overlap, so do different function-ascriptions. The entities of Synthetic Biology research are a case in point, where organisms with biological functionality are altered to perform technical functions. A function theory for SynBiofacts has to address artifactual...
| Publicado en: | Grazer Philosophische Studien Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 171 - 187 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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