Current Issues in Teleology

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University Press of America (1986)
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Presents a collection of twelve essays on teleological explanation in the natural sciences dealing with considerations regarding teleological concepts in biology to the role of teleology in the human sciences and even in cosmology. Co-published with the Center for Philosophy of Science

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An architectural theory of functional consciousness.Arthur W. Burks
Teleological functional analyses and the hierarchical organization of nature.  (pages 26--48)William Bechtel
Teleology and the Biological Sciences.  (pages 61)Michael Ruse
Intention and action among the macromolecules.  (pages 65--56)Alexander Rosenberg
Organismic biology and ecosystems ecology: description or explanation.  (pages 77--92)Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Natural Functions and Reverse Causation.  (pages 129)Lowell Nissen

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