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  • Death
    Philippe Huneman
    This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptu...
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  • Death
    Philippe Huneman
    This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptu...
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    46,91 €

  • Functions
    Philippe Huneman
    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’ papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ’etiological theory of functions’ and Cummins’ ’systemic’ conception of functions are refined and elaborated in...
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    207,88 €

  • Understanding Purpose
    Philippe Huneman
    Understanding Purpose is an exploration of the central concept of natural purpose [Naturzweck] in Kant’s philosophy of biology. Kant’s work in this area is marked by a strong teleological concern: living organisms, in his view, are qualitatively different from mechanistic devices, and as a result they cannot be understood by means of the same principles. At the same time, Kant’...
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    26,87 €