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پدید آورنده
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رده
QH331 .L533 2004
QH331
.
L533
2004
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0262122618
(Number (ISBN
0262621991
(Number (ISBN
9780262122610
(Number (ISBN
9780262621991
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Organisms and artifacts :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
design in nature and elsewhere /
First Statement of Responsibility
Tim Lewens
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 183 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Life and mind
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Meaning and the mean to an understanding of ends -- Why is an eye? -- Adaptationism and engineering -- On five "-Isms" -- Function, selection, and explanation -- Deflating function -- Artifacts and organisms
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"In Organisms and Artifacts, Tim Lewens investigates the analogical use of the language of design in evolutionary biology. Uniquely among the natural sciences, biology uses descriptive and explanatory terms more suited to artifacts than organisms. When biologists discuss, for example, the purpose of the panda's thumb and look for functional explanations of organic traits, they borrow from a vocabulary of intelligent design that Darwin's findings could have made irrelevant over a hundred years ago. Lewens argues that examining the analogy between the processes of evolution and the processes by which artifacts are created - looking at organisms as analogical artifacts - sheds light on explanations of the form of both organic and inorganic objects
Text of Note
"In the course of his argument Lewens discusses issues of interest to philosophers of biology, biologists, philosophers of mind, and students of technology. These issues include the pitfalls of the design-based thinking of adaptationism, the possible conflict between selection explanations and developmental explanations, a proposed explanation of biological function, and prospects for an informative evolutionary model of technological change. Emerging from these discussions is an explanation of the use of the vocabulary of intelligence and intention in biology that does not itself draw on the ideas of intelligent design, which will be of interest in the ongoing debate over intelligent design creationism."--Jacket
Text of Note
He argues further that understanding the analogy is important for what it can tell us not only about biology but about technology and philosophy."
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Biology-- Philosophy
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
570/
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1
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QH331
Book number
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L533
2004
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Lewens, Tim
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20160712072558.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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