LEADER 03950nam 22005415 450 001 9910255335103321 005 20200706102416.0 010 $a3-319-32020-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-32020-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000627533 035 $a(EBL)4461643 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-32020-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4461643 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000627533 100 $a20160330d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Critical Overview of Biological Functions /$fby Justin Garson 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (119 p.) 225 1 $aPhilosophy of Science,$x2366-4495 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-32018-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aChapter 1. What is a theory of function supposed to do? -- Chapter 2. Goals and Functions -- Chapter 3. Function and Selection -- Chapter 4. Function and Fitness -- Chapter 5. Functions and Causal Roles -- Chapter 6. Alternative Accounts of Function -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: What Next?. 330 $aThis book is a critical survey of and guidebook to the literature on biological functions. It ties in with current debates and developments, and at the same time, it looks back on the state of discourse in naturalized teleology prior to the 1970s. It also presents three significant new proposals. First, it describes the generalized selected effects theory, which is one version of the selected effects theory, maintaining that the function of a trait consists in the activity that led to its differential persistence or reproduction in a population, and not merely its differential reproduction. Secondly, it advances ?within-discipline pluralism? (as opposed to between-discipline pluralism) a new form of function pluralism, which emphasizes the coexistence of function concepts within diverse biological sub-disciplines. Lastly, it provides a critical assessment of recent alternatives to the selected effects theory of function, namely, the weak etiological theory and the systems-theoretic theory. The book argues that, to the extent that functions purport to offer causal explanations for the existence of a trait, there are no viable alternatives to the selected effects view. The debate about biological functions is still as relevant and important to biology and philosophy as it ever was. Recent controversies surrounding the ENCODE Project Consortium in genetics, the nature of psychiatric classification, and the value of ecological restoration, all point to the continuing relevance to biology of philosophical discussion about the nature of functions. In philosophy, ongoing debates about the nature of biological information, intentionality, health and disease, mechanism, and even biological trait classification, are closely related to debates about biological functions. 410 0$aPhilosophy of Science,$x2366-4495 606 $aBiology?Philosophy 606 $aMedicine?Philosophy 606 $aPhilosophy of Biology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34010 606 $aPhilosophy of Medicine$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34030 615 0$aBiology?Philosophy. 615 0$aMedicine?Philosophy. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Biology. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Medicine. 676 $a574.01 700 $aGarson$b Justin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063940 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255335103321 996 $aA Critical Overview of Biological Functions$92535412 997 $aUNINA