Biological functions, generics, and explanation.
Biological function ascriptions are often thought to present distinctive philosophical puzzles: they screen off a part’s purpose from merely accidental effects of its presence and they provide a certain kind of explanation. I propose a naive, ahistorical account of functions to resolve these puzzles...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 206; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2025
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |