Compare Prices | Create Shopping Lists with Price Drop Alerts | Set Coupons, Promo Codes & Sales Alerts | Get Access to Exclusive Deals and Much More... All in One Place | Read all about it here

A Critical Overview of Biological Functions

A Critical Overview of Biological Functions

Brand
Springer Nature
Manufacturer
N/A
Part Number
0
GTIN
9783319320182
Condition
New
Product Description

This book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same time, it looks back on the state of discourse in naturalized teleology prior to the 1970s. It also presents three significant new proposals. First, it describes the generalized selected effects theory, which is one version of the selected effects theory, maintaining that the function of a trait consists in the activity that led to its differential persistence or reproduction in a population, and not merely its differential reproduction. Secondly, it advances within-discipline pluralism (as opposed to between-discipline pluralism) a new form of function pluralism, which emphasizes the coexistence of function concepts within diverse biological sub-disciplines. Lastly, it provides a critical assessment of recent alternatives to the selected effects theory of function, namely, the weak etiological theory and the systems-theoretic theory. The book argues that, to the extent that functions purport to offer causal explanations for the existence of a trait, there are no viable alternatives to the selected effects view. The debate about biological functions is still as relevant and important to biology and philosophy as it ever was. Recent controversies surrounding the ENCODE Project Consortium in genetics, the nature of psychiatric classification, and the value of ecological restoration, all point to the continuing relevance to biology of philosophical discussion about the nature of functions. In philosophy, ongoing debates about the nature of biological information, intentionality, health and disease, mechanism, and even biological trait classification, are closely related to debates about biological functions.

Available Colors
Available Sizes
1 Offer Price Range: $54.99 - $54.99
BEST PRICE

Single Product Purchase

$54.99
@ Link.springer.com     BUY Now

Price Comparison

Seller Contact Seller List Price On Sale Shipping Best Promo Final Price Volume Discount Financing Availability Seller's Page
BEST PRICE
1 Product Purchase
@ Link.springer.com
Contact Store Call Store Contact Support
$54.99 $54.99

$54.99
See Site In stock Visit Store

Similar Products

A View of Operations Research Applications in Italy, 2018

$79.99

Energierecht

$59.99

Das Opportunittsprinzip im franzsischen Strafrecht

$44.99

Psychosoziale Therapien bei schweren psychischen Erkrankungen

$9.99

Biological Odour Treatment

$39.99

Einfhrung in die Thermodynamik

$29.99

Cancer Genetics

$84.99

Retrial Queueing Systems

$109.99

Medizinische Psychologie in der Intensivbehandlung

$69.99

ber unsterile Grokulturen von Scenedesmus obliquus

$59.99

Attention Deficits, Learning Disabilities, and Ritalin

$54.99

North American Social Report

$54.99

Gesellschaftsanschluss der Lrche und Grundlagen ihrer Natrlichen Verbreitung in den Ostalpen, Der

$59.99

Lipoprotein Metabolism and Atherogenesis

$54.99

Mathematical Models with Singularities

$54.99

Beating Heart Bypass Surgery and Minimally Invasive Conduit Harvesting

$54.99

Learn cocos2d 2

$39.99

Wirkungsanalyse verschiedener Content-Formate und Kommunikationskanle in der CSR-Kommunikation

$69.99

Americas Most Successful Startups

$109.99

Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective

$39.99

Entwicklungschancen sozialdemokratischer Parteien

$69.95

Allgemeine Pathologie

$69.99

Creative Cost-Benefits Reinvention

$39.99

Philosophie der Geisteswissenschaften als Kritik Ihrer Methoden

$39.99

Dnde estar mi zapato?

$3.71

Organisieren und Organisationen verstehen

$54.99

Principles of Network Economics

$84.99

The New Bail-In Legislation

$69.99

Photoreception and Vision in Invertebrates

$109.00

Those Who Come After

$99.99

200 Jahre Heidelberger Romantik

$84.99

Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe

$54.99

Stella Daz: Stella Daz Dreams Big

$5.96

Brain Development in Drosophila melanogaster

$169.99

Anleitung zur Messung und Aufzeichnung der Niederschlge

$54.99

Research on Reasoning with Data and Statistical Thinking: International Perspectives

$139.00

Lola: Lola en la biblioteca

$25.95

The Golden Temple: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #9)

$5.24

Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

$159.99

Computer Vision ECCV 2020

$84.99