Functions: selection and mechanisms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Huneman, Philippe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 363
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Neurosciences.; Metaphysics.; Philosophy and science.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Philosophy of Science.; Evolutionary Biology.

This  volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’s papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ‘etiological theory of functio...