This introduction presents general issues about functions and functional explanations, and the frameworks within which they had been handled by philosophers since four decades. It …
C Gillett - Functions: Selection and mechanisms, 2013 - Springer
Versions of “functionalism,” and their frameworks, have come to dominate many philosophical debates. Unfortunately, there is now a damaging interpretive “fog” where …
FOREWORD pe ain title of this collection of essays on the philosophy of social sciences–p, in Action–refers to themes dear to Professor Raimo Tuomela. Realism eters to his …