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N2  - This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological structure or process amounts to suggesting that it is explained by its effects. This book confronts the debates on function with the use of the notion in a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, psychology, and medicine. It also raises the question of whether this notion, which is as old in the history of technology as it is in the life sciences, has the same meaning in these two domains.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-031-31271-7
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AB  - This book, originally published in French, examines the philosophical debates on functions over the last forty years and proposes new ways of analysis. Pervasive throughout the life sciences, the concept of function has the air of an epistemological scandal: ascribing a function to a biological structure or process amounts to suggesting that it is explained by its effects. This book confronts the debates on function with the use of the notion in a wide range of disciplines, such as biology, psychology, and medicine. It also raises the question of whether this notion, which is as old in the history of technology as it is in the life sciences, has the same meaning in these two domains.
T1  - Functions :from organisms to artefacts /
AU  - Gayon, Jean,
AU  - Ricqlès, Armand de,
AU  - Dussault, Antoine C.,
VL  - volume 32
CN  - QH331
LA  - eng
LA  - Translated from French.
ID  - 1472124
KW  - Biology
SN  - 9783031312717
SN  - 3031312716
TI  - Functions :from organisms to artefacts /
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