Functions and fixed types: Biological and other functions in the post-adaptationist era

Ulrich Krohs

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Among naturalistic theories of biological functions, only those that do not reduce functions to actual causal roles allow for a distinction of function and dysfunction. Most prominent among those theories are etiological theories of function, which r

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