What Functions Explain: Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

by Peter McLaughlin

Book Overview

This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521038855
• ISBN13: 9780521038850
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"