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Traits have not evolved to function the way they do because of a past advantage

Robert Cummins & Martin Roth

In Francisco José Ayala & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 72--88 (2009)

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Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism.Ruth Garrett Millikan - 1984 - MIT Press.details Preface by Daniel C. Dennett Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, ... Download Export citation Bookmark 1306 citations
(1 other version)Biofunctions: Two Paradigms.Ruth Millikan - 2002 - In André Ariew, Robert Cummins & Mark Perlman (eds.), Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. New York: Oxford University Press.details Download Export citation Bookmark 52 citations
(1 other version)The Structure of Science.Ernest Nagel - 1961 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (2):275-275.details Download Export citation Bookmark 883 citations
Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Transformation.William Coleman & Garland Allen - 1977 - Journal of the History of Biology 15 (1):157-158.details Download Export citation Bookmark 54 citations
The teleological notion of 'function'.Karen Neander - 1991 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (4):454 – 468.details Download Export citation Bookmark 222 citations
15. Types of Traits: The Importance of Functional Homologues.Karen Neander - 2002 - In André Ariew, Robert Cummins & Mark Perlman (eds.), Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 390.details Download Export citation Bookmark 24 citations

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